The effect of health education to combine of TCM and western medicine on patients with chronic bronchitis

Abstract

Objective To explore the effect of health education to combine traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine on curative effect and prognosis of patients with chronic bronchitis.Methods The clinical materials of 100 patients were reviewed from Jan.2010 to Jue.2011,and randomly divided into two groups:intervention group and control group to compare the cure rate and prognosis.The intervention group was treated with the health education care,and control group was treated with routine nursing.Results The cure rate of intervention group was 96.0％ while the other group was 84.0％.Compared with the control group,the curative effect and prognosis were significantly better in the intervention group (P ＜0.05 ).Conclusions Health education to combine traditional Chinese and western medicine can help to improve cure rate and prognosis of patients with chronic bronchitis,and be worth to research deeply. Key words: Chronic bronchitis; Combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine; Health education