Survey on follow-up status in patients with chronic liver diseases / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

A questionnaire and telephone survey was conducted on 246 patients with chronic liver diseases in the Outpatient Clinic from August 2010 to May 2011.The distribution of diseases and the causes of losing follow-up were analyzed. Most subjects in this survey (182/246,74.0％ ) were patients with chronic viral hepatitis( HBV or HCV)and cirrhosis; and their follow-up status was better than others (X2 =12.382,P ＜ 0.05). There were no differences in gender( X2 =10.137,P ＞ 0.05),but significant differences in age ( X2 =31.783,P ＜ 0.05 ) and educational levels ( X2 =32.803,P ＜ 0.05 ) between patients with chronic viral hepatitis and cirrhosis and patients with other liver diseases.The main causes of losing follow-up were neglect of disease by patients (38.3％) and lack of good communication between doctors and patients ( 18.3％ ).It is important to reinforce the understanding and awareness of chronic liver diseases for patients.