ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the role of medical insurance in the treatment of the coronary heart disease(CHD) out-patients with or without medicare. Methods 92 CHD out-patients from the medicare department and 92 CHD out-patients from general department of Shandong Taishan Chronic Disease Hospital were investigated and comparatively analyzed on their clinical data in the past 1 year,including the times of hospital visiting,compliance with doctor's instruction,blood pressure,serum lipids and blood glucose control and evaluation of treatment effect based on their clinical symptoms and ECG records.Results The compliance with doctor's instruction,blood lipids,blood pressure control of out-patients in medicare department were significantly better than those in general department(P