Effects of hospital–community integrated transitional care on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease†
Article Category: Original article
Published Online: Jul 10, 2019
Page range: 97 - 105
Received: Jul 22, 2018
Accepted: Oct 13, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/FON-2019-0015
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Objective
To explore the effects of “hospital–community integrated transitional care” model on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Methods
A total of 117 inpatients with COPD from the Department of Respiratory Medicine in a tertiary general hospital in Nanjing were enrolled by convenience sampling from January to December in 2016 and then were divided into intervention group (
Results
For a total score of quality of life, there was a significant difference between the two groups (
Conclusions
Hospital–community integrated transitional care model can improve the quality of life of patients with COPD.