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Chest, Vol 96, 815-818, Copyright © 1989 by American College of Chest Physicians

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The tuberculosis clinic

MJ Werhane, G Snukst-Torbeck and DE Schraufnagel
Nursing Service, Veterans Administration West Side Medical Center, Chicago.

Patient compliance is the major obstacle to successful treatment of tuberculosis. To counter factors of inconstant attention to compliance, inconsistent follow-up, and incomplete documentation, a tuberculosis clinic, managed by nurse specialists, was established. To evaluate this clinic, records of all patients with tuberculosis followed-up there were compared with patients with tuberculosis observed in the other clinics over a nine-year period. Twelve percent of patients in the general clinics group had complete, documented, effective treatment compared with 86 percent in the tuberculosis clinic group. Only 31 percent of the general clinics patients compared with 100 percent of the tuberculosis clinic patients had completely documented follow-up. In hospitals in endemic areas for tuberculosis, a tuberculosis clinic may be superior to general clinics for the care of patients with tuberculosis. Staff of a specialized clinic can quickly identify a break in therapy, provide support necessary for better compliance, lessen the number of incomplete records, and decrease the number of patients who do not receive full therapy.


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