NCT03447392

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 134 (actual)
• Sponsor: Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Discharge Education of Chinese Medicine	Discharge Education of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-21
• Primary completion: 2018-01-08
• Completion: 2018-01-08
• First posted: 2018-02-27
• Last updated: 2018-02-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China