After 12 weeks of supervised therapy, patients were encouraged to continue stretching and strengthening exercises at home (all exercises listed in Table 2, except cycling) once a day for 5 days a week.
This result is consistent with those from other effectiveness studies, showing that unsupervised treatment with artemether-lumefantrine had the same efficacy (98%) as supervised therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Uganda 33 and that artemether-lumefantrine had excellent effectiveness in a region of Tanzania with high rates of treatment failure with other antimalarial drugs.
[69 M, THA] Differing expectations and views between surgeons and rehabilitation providers on patients' functional status, ongoing need for supervised physical therapy and achievable outcomes lead to inconsistent advice, patient confusion, premature discontinuation of therapy and less than optimal outcomes.
The following Medical Subject Heading terms and strategy was used: directly observed therapy OR supervised therapy OR directly observed treatment strategy OR DOT OR DOTS AND self-administered therapy OR self-supervised therapy OR unsupervised therapy AND tuberculosis.
MK trained and supervised the local counselors, supervised therapies, and organized and supervised post-treatment assessments.
MR developed the design, trained the local counselors and supervised therapies.
One such man was the former army captain Billy Clegg-Hill, who died in 1962 during medically-supervised "therapy" for homosexuality — ordered by a British judge, following Clegg-Hills's arrest for indecency.
Another study defined DOT as the daily delivery of medications to the patient at home for 2 months with subsequent self-supervised therapy to cure.
The ART community treatment model, which is based on intensive treatment counselling and preparation; self-supervised therapy; community-based lay treatment support; and regular follow-up by health professionals [ 2] may have potential for the delivery of TB treatment.
Over 40% of patients in both the self-supervised therapy and the DOT arm failed to complete therapy [ 17, 18].
