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Using Personal Digital Assistants To Track TB Data
Colleagues,
As reported in Science Daily...For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it's critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of powerful antibiotics, with injections six days a week for the first six months.
In a project launched in Lima, Peru, researchers found that equipping health care workers with PDAs to record data dropped the average time for patients' test results to reach their doctors from 23 days to eight days.
"You can monitor patients in a more timely way. It also prevents results from getting lost," says Blaya, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Their work was reported in the online edition of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases...
Read on at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211122149.htm
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in Science Daily...For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it's critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of powerful antibiotics, with injections six days a week for the first six months.
In a project launched in Lima, Peru, researchers found that equipping health care workers with PDAs to record data dropped the average time for patients' test results to reach their doctors from 23 days to eight days.
"You can monitor patients in a more timely way. It also prevents results from getting lost," says Blaya, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Their work was reported in the online edition of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases...
Read on at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211122149.htm
ENJOY!
CC
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