Social effect of hospital and community-integrated management for elderly patients with chronic heart failure

AIM:To explore the social effect of hospital and community-integrated management for elderly patients with chronic heart failure. METHODS: Patients with chronic heart failure in the community were divided into experimental group of conventional drug treatment and control group of conventional drug treatment plus behavioral intervention. The results of the two groups were compared after 2 years of treatment. RESULTS: The prognosis-associated indexes in the experimental group were better than those in the control group. CONCLUSION: Hospital and community-integrated management significantly improves treatment results for elderly patients with chronic heart failure and effectively reduces medical costs and rate of re-hospitalization.