The ambulatory treatment of patients hospitalized with pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Article1 October 1957THE AMBULATORY TREATMENT OF PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSISJAMES A. WIER, ROBERT L. TAYLOR, RICHARD S. FRASERJAMES A. WIERSearch for more papers by this author, ROBERT L. TAYLORSearch for more papers by this author, RICHARD S. FRASERSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-47-4-762 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptFor the last several years there has been a widespread tendency to liberalize bed-rest requirements in the treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, increasing ambulation of patients being allowed; indeed, in some treatment centers, nearly complete ambulatory treatment has become the accepted practice. However, there has been no properly controlled study which would compare the results of treatment in patients permitted early ambulation with those in patients on standard bed-rest programs. It is the purpose of this paper to report the results of a study evaluating the need for bed-rest in the treatment of tuberculosis.Actually, the use of ambulation,...Bibliography1. Pottenger FM: Clinical tuberculosis, 2nd Ed., 1928, The C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis. Google Scholar2. Waring JJ: The J. Burns Amberson Lecture, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 74: 821, 1956. MedlineGoogle Scholar3. Brown L: The present status of the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, Ann. Int. Med. 10: 147, 1936-37. LinkGoogle Scholar4. BrownHeise LFH: The effect of six weeks' bed rest on patients entering Trudeau Sanitorium, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 6: 926, 1922. Google Scholar5. Amberson JB: The lasting cure of early pulmonary tuberculosis, J. A. M. A. 109: 1949, 1937. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. Bray HA: Strict bed rest in pulmonary tuberculosis, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 52: 483, 1945. MedlineGoogle Scholar7. Pratt JH: The evaluation of the rest treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 50: 185, 1944. Google Scholar8. Peck WM: The modalities of bed rest, Pub. Health Rep. 61: 626, 1946. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar9. Diagnostic Standards and Classification of Tuberculosis, 1950, National Tuberculosis Association, New York. Google Scholar10. RussellDresslerMiddlebrook WFSHG: Chemotherapy of tuberculosis, in Advances in internal medicine, Year Book Publishers, 8: 221, 1956. Google Scholar11. D'EsopoDelabarreRodman NDEMMH: Patients treated with chemotherapy without rest therapy, Transactions of the 15th Veterans Administration, Armed Forces Conference on Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis, St. Louis, February, 1956. Google Scholar12. Rothstein E: Discussion from floor of papers by Wier13 and D'Esopo.11 Google Scholar13. WierFraserWeiserMorse JARSOWC: An evaluation of ambulatory vs non-ambulatory treatment of hospitalized patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, transactions of the 15th Veterans Administration, Armed Forces Conference on Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis, St. Louis, February, 1956. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Denver, Colorado*From the Symposium on the Treatment of Tuberculosis, presented at the Thirty-eighth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Boston, Massachusetts, April 10, 1957.From the Pulmonary Disease Service and the Research and Development Service, Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Denver, Colorado.Requests for reprints should be addressed to James A. Wier, Col., MC, USA, Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Denver 8, Colorado. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byTHE PRESENT STATUS OF THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSISTHE PRESENT STATUS OF AMBULATORY THERAPY OF TUBERCULOSISCHANGING CONCEPTS IN THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS. PART IIThe treatment of tuberculous pericarditisThe treatment of pulmonary Tuberculosis at work: A controlled trialTuberculosisThe antibacterial therapy of tuberculosis 1 October 1957Volume 47, Issue 4Page: 762-773KeywordsPatientsPulmonary diseasesSportsTuberculosisWalking Issue Published: 1 October 1957 PDF downloadLoading ...