The underuse of AI in the health sector: Opportunity costs, success stories, risks and recommendations

U Pagallo, S O'Sullivan, N Nevejans, A Holzinger… - Health and …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose This contribution explores the underuse of artificial intelligence (AI) in the health
sector, what this means for practice, and how much the underuse can cost. Attention is …

Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis among people experiencing homelessness in the United States: current recommendations

SM Marks, JL Self, T Venkatappa… - Public Health …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health problem, especially among people
experiencing homelessness (PEH). The Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis …

Real-world implementation of video-observed therapy in an urban TB program in the United States

A Perry, A Chitnis, A Chin, C Hoffmann… - … of Tuberculosis and …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
BACKGROUND: Video directly observed therapy (vDOT) was introduced to increase
flexibility and meet patient-specific needs for TB treatment. This study aimed to assess the …

Video-observed therapy versus directly observed therapy in patients with tuberculosis

CB Truong, KA Tanni, J Qian - American journal of preventive medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesized evidence in the effects of
video-observed therapy versus that of directly observed therapy on medication adherence …

Patient-perceived treatment burden of tuberculosis treatment

NCH Ting, N El-Turk, MSH Chou, CC Dobler - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Treatment for tuberculosis lasts for a minimum of 6 months. The treatment
burden experienced by patients in a low-incidence setting where directly observed therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Application of artificial intelligence to the monitoring of medication adherence for tuberculosis treatment in Africa: algorithm development and validation

JN Sekandi, W Shi, R Zhu, P Kaggwa, E Mwebaze, S Li - JMIR AI, 2023 - ai.jmir.org
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) applications based on advanced deep learning
methods in image recognition tasks can increase efficiency in the monitoring of medication …

Digital directly observed therapy to monitor adherence to medications: a scoping review

MCD Stoner, AC Maragh-Bass… - HIV research & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Technology-based directly observed therapy (DOT) is more cost-effective and
efficient compared with in-person monitoring visits for medication adherence. While some …

[HTML][HTML] Stakeholders' perceptions of benefits of and barriers to using video-observed treatment for monitoring patients with tuberculosis in Uganda: exploratory …

JN Sekandi, V Kasiita, NA Onuoha… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2021 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background Nonadherence to treatment remains a barrier to tuberculosis (TB) control.
Directly observed therapy (DOT) is the standard for monitoring adherence to TB treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for use of video directly observed therapy during tuberculosis treatment—United States, 2023

JM Mangan - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2023 - cdc.gov
Background The 2016 US clinical practice guidelines for TB treatment recommend DOT as
the standard of care (1). During DOT, a health care worker observes patients ingest their …

[HTML][HTML] Programmatic adoption and implementation of video-observed therapy in Minnesota: prospective observational cohort study

P Bachina, CK Lippincott, A Perry, E Munk… - JMIR formative …, 2022 - formative.jmir.org
Background In-person directly observed therapy (DOT) is standard of care for tuberculosis
(TB) treatment adherence monitoring in the US, with increasing use of video-DOT (vDOT). In …