Preliminary Evaluation of Taiwan's Tuberculosis DOTS Strategy

Since April 2006, under the mobilization plan to reduce tuberculosis by half in a decade, Taiwan has implemented DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course) in full scale. According to data collected from December 2007, the DOTS implementation rate among smear-positive patients reached 92.6%. Apart from the increase in quantity of DOTS, the quality of DOTS was also enhanced through careful supervision. Preliminary cohort data indicates that the treatment success rate of the smear-positive cases under DOTS and not under DOTS, the sputum conversion rate in 3 months and the defaulted rate have improved in either 2005 (before DOTS) or 2006 (after DOTS); thus showing that significant results in Taiwan's DOTS implementation. DOTS requires a complete strategy, especially the 5 elements recommended by WHO. These need continuous evaluation and research in order to discover and amend any flaws and thus elevating the quality.

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Tuberculosis ； Halve tuberculosis in a decade ； DOTS ； smear-positive

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Chang, Y. C. (2017). 積體化電路設計之矽基體奈米線 [master's thesis, National Tsing Hua University]. Airiti Library. https://www.airitilibrary.com/Article/Detail?DocID=U0016-0401201815552941

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