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Factors associated with poor patient compliance with antituberculosis therapy in Northwest Perak, Malaysia
1Department of Medicine, Leicester General Hospital, UK.
Abstract:
A retrospective study of factors associated with poor patient compliance with antituberculosis therapy was conducted in Taiping, Perak. 219 patients were studied. Male patients and hospital referrals were significantly more likely to default. Patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis alone had a greater rate of default, but this just failed to reach significance (0.05 less than p less than 0.10). Six of 7 male hospital referrals with tuberculous lymphadenitis alone defaulted. Patients treated as outpatients from the start were more compliant. Housewives were also highly compliant. It was noticed that patients who defaulted tended to do so during early stages of treatment.
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