To explore the effects of “hospital–community integrated transitional care” model on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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 (
For a total score of quality of life, there was a significant difference between the two groups (
Hospital–community integrated transitional care model can improve the quality of life of patients with COPD.