Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the quantity of nursing for adherence in outpatients with cardiometabolic diseases. The method of this study used field observation and document analysis．The quantity of nursing counted places that the nursing collaborated with other medical team per a patient. This study classified it as that one place was one point, and two places separated two points and three points, and three places was four points,and five points was more than four places. This study had performed the research in three hospitals which gave the consent of the ethical committees.
The number of subjects was 721. The mean age was 58.1±10.7 years. The average of treatment period was 67.2 months．The quantity of nursing was 2.6±1.0. The correlation coefficient of Spearman's rho indicated significant correlation of 0.44 between the quantity of nursing and medical cost score per a patient per one day. The work of nursing in outpatient department indicated that the assistance of doctor consultation was approximately 26% and, the assistance of doctor consultation and the nursing that collaborated with other places were approximately 74% of all.
