Discharge Education of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine Reduces Re-hospitalization in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: Discharge Education of Chinese Medicine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03447392

Jguo

Details and patient eligibility

About

Although interventions combining patient education and postdischarge management have demonstrated benefits in patients with chronic heart failure, the benefit attributable to patient education alone is not known. The investigators hypothesized that a patient discharge education program would improve clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure.

Full description

Although interventions combining patient education and postdischarge management have demonstrated benefits in patients with chronic heart failure, the benefit attributable to patient education of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine is not known. The investigators hypothesized that a patient discharge education of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine program would improve clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure.

Enrollment: 134 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Candidates for this study were admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of heart failure and documented left ventricular systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction<0.40).

Exclusion criteria

• CKD4 and CKD5

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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134 participants in 2 patient groups

patient education and Chinese medicine

Experimental group

Description:

1-hour, one-on-one teaching session with a educator to the standard discharge education of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine

Treatment:

Behavioral: Discharge Education of Chinese Medicine

patient education

No Intervention group

Description:

no discharge education