Tuberculosis treatment improves with text-based behavioral nudges - STAT

Tuberculosis treatment improves with text-based behavioral nudges - STAT

Opinion: The resurgence of tuberculosis is behavioral, not medical. Nudges can fix it

By EREZ YOELI AND JON RATHAUSER AND DAVID RAND

JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Daily texts to people with tuberculosis asking them to verify they have taken their medications increases the number who complete their treatment.

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