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Standardized treatment
DEFINITION
In the tuberculosis context, it is a treatment regimen that is the same for all patients with similar characteristics or a similar type of tuberculosis. This is the opposite of individualized treatment.
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SOURCE DEFINITION
All patients in a defined group or category receive the same regimen. Drug resistance surveillance (DRS) data from representative patient populations are used to as the basis for regimen design in the absence of individual DST.
OTHER DEFINITIONS
All patients in a defined group or category receive the same regimen. Representative Drug Resistance Surveillance (DRS) data in well-defined patient populations are used to design the regimen
Same drug regimen is used for all patients (for example, category I treatment for new pulmonary cases)
Drug regimen selected by a country for treatment of a TB patient based on efficacy, cost, prevalence of drug resistance, state of development of the health services, and coverage of the population. The regimen specifies the anti-TB drugs, dosages of each anti-TB drug, frequency of intake, and duration of the regimen for each diagnostic category (that is, treatment category I, II, or III)
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