Mode of Treatment Administration in Persons Reported
with TB,
United States, 1993–2004
Slide 26. Mode of Treatment Administration in
Persons Reported with TB, United States, 1993–2004. In 1993, the
reporting areas began providing information about mode of treatment
administration on the individual TB case report form. Treatment
administered as only directly observed therapy (DOT) increased from
21% in 1993 to 57% in 2004, the latest year with available data.
There was also an increase in the proportion of patients who
received at least some portion of their treatment as DOT (based on
combining the percentage of patients who received only DOT and the
percentage for whom some portion was self-administered). In 2004,
84% of patients received at least some portion of their treatment as
DOT.