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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (1): 111-113.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2018.01.024

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Research progress of the nursing intervention on treatment compliance of patients with multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

Li-jun SONG(),Lin ZHANG,Jing. ZHENG   

  1. Tubercular Intensive Care Unit,Red Cross Hospital of Hangzhou,Hangzhou 310008,China
  • Received:2017-09-05 Online:2018-01-10 Published:2018-03-14

Abstract:

The large scale of epidemic rising of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is bringing a great threat to human health and causing a heavy socioeconomic loss. It becomes one of the major threats to global TB control and makes that the TB prevention and control is facing a critical challenge. In order to provide more scientific evidences for strengthening the research on nursing of MDR-TB, we did this comprehensive literature review, including the epidemic situation of MDR-TB and its reasons, MDR-TB control strategy, as well as the researches on improving treatment compliance of MDR-TB patients with the effective nursing methods.

Key words: Tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant, Medication adherence, Epidemics, Nursing research, Review