| Title | A Pilot Study of an mHealth Application for Healthcare Workers: Poor Uptake Despite High Reported Acceptability at a Rural South African Community-Based MDR-TB Treatment Program. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Authors | Chaiyachati, Krisda H., Marian Loveday, Stephen Lorenz, Neal Lesh, Lee-Megan Larkan, Sandro Cinti, Gerald H. Friedland, and Jessica E. Haberer |
| Journal | PloS one |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pagination | e64662 |
| Date Published | 2013 |
| ISSN | 1932-6203 |
| Abstract | As the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal addresses a growing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) epidemic by shifting care and treatment from trained specialty centers to community hospitals, delivering and monitoring MDR-TB therapy has presented new challenges. In particular, tracking and reporting adverse clinical events have been difficult for mobile healthcare workers (HCWs), trained health professionals who travel daily to patient homes to administer and monitor therapy. We designed and piloted a mobile phone application (Mobilize) for mobile HCWs that electronically standardized the recording and tracking of MDR-TB patients on low-cost, functional phones. |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0064662 |
| Alternate Journal | PLoS ONE |
