[New principles of ambulatory care of adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].

New methodologic approaches have been developed to the outpatient care of patients with respiratory tuberculosis, which accelerates their cure and shorten the terms of their follow-up in dispensary registry groups. These methods were tested in antituberculosis institutions of 26 regions and cities of the RSFSR during 10 years. At present they have been introduced into the antituberculosis establishments of some RSFSR administrative areas. The use of the new method of outpatient care of tuberculosis patients enables the number of the contingents requiring specialized phthisiatric care to be defined more accurately and specified. Introduction of the method requires no additional material and technical expenses and resources. On the contrary, it provides their more effective use in order to improve the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic care to tuberculosis patients.