title: [Western and traditional Chinese medicine disease management programs of chronic heart failure].
abstract: Chronic heart failure (CHF) is one of the greatest disease in modem medicine as chronic disease . It cost lots of financial resources to deal with. Western and traditional Chinese medicine Disease management programs (DMP) can notability improve the qualities of life and reduce the expenses for CHF. The disease management programs of CHF have achieved kind of success, but the management programs method witch is of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) characteristic idea carry into testing execution in few TCM hospitals only. This article review the necessary of DMP research, advances in research of DMP research, and relationship between management programs method of Western and traditional Chinese medicine and illness state improvement of CHF patients.
authors.affiliation: Second Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510405, China.
authors.forename: Zhaoming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Xiaogang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sheng
authors.forename: Guangming
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pan
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D010349:Patient Compliance