<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_FON-2019-0015_s_007_w2aab3b7b2b1b6b1aab1c18b1Aa"><h3>Objective</h3><p>To explore the effects of “hospital–community integrated transitional care” model on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).</p></sec><sec id="j_FON-2019-0015_s_008_w2aab3b7b2b1b6b1aab1c18b2Aa"><h3>Methods</h3><p>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 (<italic>n</italic> = 60) and control group (<italic>n</italic> = 57) by random number table. Patients in the intervention group accepted both routine care and hospital–community integrated transitional care for 3 months after discharge. Assessment of quality of life by telephone follow-up or interview within a week before discharge and 1, 3, and 6 months after discharge was evaluated using the Short Form-36 (SF-36) health survey questionnaire.</p></sec><sec id="j_FON-2019-0015_s_009_w2aab3b7b2b1b6b1aab1c18b3Aa"><h3>Results</h3><p>For a total score of quality of life, there was a significant difference between the two groups (<italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.05): 1, 3, and 6 months after discharge. In addition, for each dimension score of quality of life, there were no significant differences (<italic>P</italic> > 0.05) except vitality dimension, 1 month after discharge, and there were significant differences in all dimensions, 3 and 6 months after discharge (<italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.05)</p></sec><sec id="j_FON-2019-0015_s_010_w2aab3b7b2b1b6b1aab1c18b4Aa"><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Hospital–community integrated transitional care model can improve the quality of life of patients with COPD.</p></sec></abstract>

ObjectiveTo explore the effects of “hospital–community integrated transitional care” model on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).MethodsA 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 (n = 60) and control group (n = 57) by random number table. Patients in the intervention group accepted both routine care and hospital–community integrated transitional care for 3 months after discharge. Assessment of quality of life by telephone follow-up or interview within a week before discharge and 1, 3, and 6 months after discharge was evaluated using the Short Form-36 (SF-36) health survey questionnaire.ResultsFor a total score of quality of life, there was a significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.05): 1, 3, and 6 months after discharge. In addition, for each dimension score of quality of life, there were no significant differences (P > 0.05) except vitality dimension, 1 month after discharge, and there were significant differences in all dimensions, 3 and 6 months after discharge (P < 0.05)ConclusionsHospital–community integrated transitional care model can improve the quality of life of patients with COPD.

Effects of hospital–community integrated transitional care on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease<sup>†</sup>

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Effects of hospital–community integrated transitional care on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

ObjectiveTo explore the effects of “hospital–community integrated transitional care” model on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).MethodsA 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 (n = 60) and control group (n = 57) by random number table. Patients in the intervention group accepted both routine care and hospital–community integrated transitional care for 3 months after discharge. Assessment of quality of life by telephone follow-up or interview within a week before discharge and 1, 3, and 6 months after discharge was evaluated using the Short Form-36 (SF-36) health survey questionnaire.ResultsFor a total score of quality of life, there was a significant difference between the two groups (P  0.05) except vitality dimension, 1 month after discharge, and there were significant differences in all dimensions, 3 and 6 months after discharge (P < 0.05)ConclusionsHospital–community integrated transitional care model can improve the quality of life of patients with COPD.

ObjectiveTo explore the effects of “hospital–community integrated transitional care” model on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary...

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

Keywords
Omaha system, transitional care, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, quality of life, SF-36, telephone follow-up

© 2019 Min Liu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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

KeywordsOmaha system, transitional care, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, quality of life, SF-36, telephone follow-up

© 2019 Min Liu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Effects of hospital–community integrated transitional care on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease^†

Keywords
Omaha system, transitional care, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, quality of life, SF-36, telephone follow-up