[Evaluation of the efficiency of a hospital stage of treatment in delivering antituberculous care to mental patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis].
The analysis of the results of treatment of two groups of patients from psychotuberculosis units of a mental hospital has shown the advantages of long-term continuous hospital treatment in these patients. In the patients receiving continuous hospital treatment for 3 years, positive changes in the course of pulmonary tuberculosis were observed in 83.5 +/- 2.8% of cases, which is 8 times more frequently than a progressive process (17 (10 +/- 2.3%) patients), p