[New technology of medical service for patients with tuberculosis in outpatient facilities]

The paper summarizes experience in using a new technology of health care provided to patients from antituberculous dispensaries (ATD), which has been developed by the Russian Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. The new procedure was used at the ATD of 114 districts, towns, and cities of 6 Russian administrative regions over 5 years. The areas under study covered more than 7 million adults. The procedure enhances the efficiency of ATD patient service and health care mainly by fixing the optimum time of basic complex therapy of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PT), by decreasing the time of recovery by 1-2 years and the follow-up duration for control outpatient groups (III, VII ATD groups), by drastically reducing the number of persons to be medically treated for preventive purposes by 58-70%. The proposed procedure for ATD follow-up care may be useful in the areas of the Russian Federation and requires no material and technical means and resources.