Disease recurrence during treatment resulted in four (1.7%) patients terminating the prescribed course.
Only 11 of the patients studied required a dose reduction and only 14 failed to complete their prescribed course.
However, performing follow-up on owner compliance to complete the started or prescribed course of treatment was beyond the scope of this study.
As evidenced by the responses below the findings of this study support earlier research: "When you're having treatment you follow a prescribed course regardless of how it affects you.
Non-adherence to anti-tuberculosis treatment was defined as those who had interrupted treatment for more than 2 weeks, including those who refused to take drugs or stopped treatment for two weeks before the end of the prescribed course.
We examined two novel questions of particular relevance to practitioners and providers – to what extent do patients attend a prescribed course of acupuncture treatments and what factors predict attendance?
Approximately half of non-adherent patients interrupted their treatment intermittently (missed a total of more than 10% of all doses) and 41 stopped treatment before receiving 90% of their prescribed course.
The group makes a point of publishing all its reports on its website, where anybody can read them.But the ICG has been much less successful of late in prescribing courses of action that governments have then implemented.
