Construction and Implementation of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Clinical Pathway Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

Objetive To study the effect of construction and implementation of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine clinical pathway patients with chronic heart failure .Methods Making a special form of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine clinical pathway patients with chronic heart failure. The study was conducted in 160 patients. They were randomly divided into 2 groups: treatment group ( n=87) and parallel control group (n=73). In treatment group, the therapy including conventional treatment and TCM treatment; but in parallel control, basic therapy was given in the same way as in treatment group. The third group was the history control group ( n=74) therapy including conventional treatment study from December of 2005 to June of 2006. Result Compared with the parallel control group, the treatment group shortened hospitalization time, decreased hospitalization expenditure and increase healing effect. Conclusion Implementation of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine clinical pathway patients with chronic heart failure will promote medical treatment quality.