Utilization of Hormone Replacement Therapy in a Family Care Selling

Abstract

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is known to increase life expectancy and improve quality of life for postmenopausal women and to represent only modest risks. The Family Medicine Center, an ambulatory care clinic, undertook a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) review project to assess the utilization of HRT in women over the age of 50 (total number of patients, 185) from July 1994 through July 1996. Reasons for non-utilization of HRT by both patient and physician are analyzed. The risks and benefits of HRT in this population were tabulated and reviewed and incorporated into an educational format for patient and physician use. Information on HRT would be an effective subject for patient education material and should be conscientiously pursued as such by primary care physicians to provide informed decisions by women in the subject age group.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA364089

Entities

People

  • Cynthia J. Lund
  • William J. Calmey

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Breast Cancer
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Drug Therapy
  • Education
  • Family Medicine
  • Health
  • Health Services
  • Heart Diseases
  • Hormones
  • Medical Personnel
  • Neoplasms
  • Physicians
  • Public Health
  • Risk Factors
  • Therapy
  • Uterine Cancers

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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