Effect of using electronic medication monitors on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in China: a longitudinal ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In China, an indigenously developed electronic medication monitor (EMM) was designed and used in 138 counties from three provinces. Previous studies showed positive results on accuracy, effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility, but also found some ineffective implementations. In this paper, we assessed the effect of implementation of EMMs on treatment outcomes.

Methods

The longitudinal ecological method was used at the county level with aggregate secondary programmatic data. All the notified TB cases in 138 counties were involved in this study from April 2017 to June 2019, and rifampicin-resistant cases were excluded. We fitted a multilevel model to assess the relative change in the quarterly treatment success rate with increasing quarterly EMM coverage rate,

SUBMITTER: Wang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7967105 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature