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Emprirical treatment
DEFINITION
Treatment guided by observation and experience. In the tuberculosis context, it means providing treatment before (or without) confirming whether the disease is due to M. tuberculosis.
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SOURCE DEFINITION
Guided by observation and experience. In TB context, it means providing treatment before (or without) confirming whether the organisms causing TB in the patient are resistant to medicines.
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Drugs for an individual patient are selected based on the best guess or probability of drug susceptibility
Regimen individually designed based on the patient’s previous history of antituberculosis treatment and with consideration of DRS data from the representative patient population. Commonly, an empirical regimen is adjusted when DST results on the individual patient become available
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