Application of Internet Hospital in Health Education of Outpatient Tuberculosis Patients

OBJECTIVE To explore the effect of internet hospital in education of outpatient tuberculosis patients. METHODS Eighty-five cases of tuberculosis patients who were initially diagnosed in The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University from June 2017 to October 2017 were randomly divided into the experimental group and the control group. Both groups of patients had the same healthy education with the guidance of clinical pharmacists and doctors. The experimental group used the internet hospital system for supervising the medicine and paying a return visit, and the control group had face-to-face guidance and telephone interviews. It compared with the cure rate of tuberculosis patients and compliance after 9 months. RESULTS In the experimental group, the on-time rate, on-time review rate and the efficiency of CT were significantly higher than those in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05), the negative conversion ratio of sputum smear and sputum culture had no statistical significance. CONCLUSION The education which using internet hospital can effectively improve the compliance and cure rate of tuberculosis patients.