Therefore, we focused our attention on the significant
reduction in response delay and the increase in
the proportion of patients transferred to isolation within
1 day, which directly reflect the impact of the notification
system. The results of the present study suggest
the implementation of an automatic mobile notification
system for the reporting of AFB smear results reduced
the response delay. The change in treatment delay
that we observed was not statistically significant, perhaps
because some physicians did not prescribe