International Journal of Clinical Case Reports, 2025, Vol.15, No.3, 120-129 http://medscipublisher.com/index.php/ijccr 120 Research Insight Open Access Comprehensive Nursing Strategies for Tuberculosis Patients Lihui Xu, Keyan Fang Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Center, Cuixi Academy of Biotechnology, Zhuji, 311800, Zhejiang, China Corresponding author: keyan.fang@cuixi.org International Journal of Clinical Case Reports 2025, Vol.15, No.3 doi: 10.5376/ijccr.2025.15.0013 Received: 05 Apr., 2025 Accepted: 09 May, 2025 Published: 27 May, 2025 Copyright © 2025 Xu and Fang, This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Preferred citation for this article: Xu L.H., and Fang K.Y., 2025, Comprehensive nursing strategies for tuberculosis patients, International Journal of Clinical Case Reports, 15(3): 120-129 (doi: 10.5376/ijccr.2025.15.0013) Abstract This study explored the overall care approach for tuberculosis patients and demonstrated that it has a good effect in enhancing treatment cooperation, improving the quality of life, and reducing mid-treatment discontinuation. This holistic care approach integrates measures from multiple fields such as medicine, psychology, nutrition, and social assistance. By tailoring management plans for each patient, stimulating the patients' own initiative, and strengthening the training of medical staff at the same time, the health conditions of tuberculosis patients have been improved. After analyzing real cases, the specific role of this holistic care method in improving the rehabilitation effect and treatment cooperation of patients was clarified. At the same time, it explains the job content of medical staff in this mode, what technical support is needed and the training requirements. This study also explored the difficulties encountered in implementing the holistic care strategy, such as insufficient training of medical staff, shortage of resources, and difficulties in protecting patients' data privacy, and provided specific solutions and policy improvement suggestions. It particularly pointed out the important role of policy support and information technology in the remote management of tuberculosis treatment, and proposed to rely on the multi-field cooperation mechanism to improve the overall treatment level. This provides a scientific basis and operational guidelines for the future promotion and optimization of the overall care model for tuberculosis patients Keywords Tuberculosis; Comprehensive care; Multidisciplinary collaboration; Adherence; Recovery outcomes 1 Introduction Tuberculosis remains a major problem in global public health. In 2012 alone, approximately 8.6 million new patients were discovered and 1.3 million people died from the disease. Although the number of patients has been gradually decreasing over the past decade, tuberculosis still harms more vulnerable people in poor and middle-income countries (Dheda et al., 2017). The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis bacteria has made control more difficult and poses a serious threat to the medical system and public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted several approaches, such as watching patients take medicine directly (DOTS), controlling tuberculosis and ending tuberculosis programs, to combat this disease. However, the simultaneous infection of tuberculosis and AIDS, coupled with the increase of drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria, has hindered the efforts to eradicate tuberculosis (Sotgiu et al., 2017). In the past, the commonly used methods for treating tuberculosis were often to wait for the patient to be discovered before applying a fixed treatment plan. All these methods have problems. It is difficult for them to detect patients in the early stage of the disease, especially in places with scarce resources and easily overlooked populations. As a result, many cases remain undetected and untreated (Rojano et al., 2019). In addition, irregular medication and treatment failure were once regarded as the main causes of drug resistance. But now there is new evidence suggesting that the absorption of medicine varies from person to person, and the poor effect of the medicine in the body is also crucial. Treating multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is both expensive and complex, further increasing the pressure on medical resources. It is difficult to achieve a high cure rate and prevent the spread of the disease. The comprehensive nursing approach provides an effective alternative to the traditional way of treating tuberculosis by addressing multiple aspects of the disease. These methods focus on the needs of patients and integrate early detection, rapid diagnosis and individualized treatment plans to achieve better outcomes (Salama
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