Heart Failure
Conditions
Keywords
Patient Education, Chinese Medicine
Brief 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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALDischarge Education of Chinese Medicine
Discharge Education of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine
Sponsors
Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
40 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| total number of days hospitalized | 84 days | total number of days hospitalized in the 84-day follow-up period. |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed