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Volume 10, Number 8, August 2004

Pharmacy Data for Tuberculosis Surveillance and Assessment of Patient Management

Deborah S. Yokoe,* Steven W. Coon,† Rachel Dokholyan,‡ Michael C. Iannuzzi,† Timothy F. Jones,§ Sarah Meredith,¶ Marisa Moore,# Lynelle Phillips,** Wayne Ray,¶ Stephanie Schech,†† Deborah Shatin,†† and Richard Platt,*†‡‡
*Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ‡Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; §Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ¶Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; #Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; **Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA; ††Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; and ‡‡HMO Research Network Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 
 
Figure 2.
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Figure 2. Pharmacy-dispensing profiles of tuberculosis (TB) case-patients treated in the health plans and at least partially outside the health plan. Percentage of standard regimen dispensed is plotted against duration of dispensing anti-TB medications for the two groups. A cutoff value of >70 days of medication dispensed from health plan–reimbursed pharmacies identifies all but one of the health plan–treated TB case-patients.

 

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