title: [Evolution of knowledge on the treatment of tuberculosis and therapy prescribed in all new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in a French community since 1970].
abstract: The many papers about the treatment of tuberculosis published during the last fifteen years show the different stages of the evolution of knowledge in this field. The Register of tubercular patients, steadily brought up to date in the French "département" Bas-Rhin, gives interesting information concerning the evolution of treatment in routine. The nature of chemotherapy shows that the newly acquired knowledge is rapidly applied, whereas the average duration of treatment is regularly shortened but is still longer than the duration recommended by researchers. A greater discrepancy appears in hospitalisation: although the efficacy of domiciliary treatment has been known and proved since the early sixties, the proportion of patients having an entirely domiciliary treatment is still low, and in 1978 over 3 patients out of 4 were hospitalized for 4.4 months on average.
mesh_terms: D000904:Antibiotics, Antitubercular / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D000904:Antibiotics, Antitubercular
vernacular_title: Evolution des connaissances sur le traitement de la tuberculose et prescriptions thérapeutiques appliquées à l'ensemble des nouveaux cas de tuberculose pulmonaire d'un département français depuis 1970.