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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Heart Failure
• Interventions: Behavioral: Discharge Education of Chinese Medicine

• Registration Number: NCT03447392
• Lead Sponsor: Guangzhou University of Traditional 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-08-21
• Primary Completion: 2018-01-08
• Study Completion: 2018-01-08
• Status Verified: 2018-02
• Study First Submitted: 2018-02-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-02-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-02-26
• Study First Posted: 2018-02-27
• Last Update Posted: 2018-02-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 134

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
patient education and Chinese medicine	Discharge Education of Chinese Medicine	1-hour, one-on-one teaching session with a educator to the standard discharge education of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
total number of days hospitalized	84 days	total number of days hospitalized in the 84-day follow-up period.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine; 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China