Veterans Health Administration Primary Care Provider Adherence to Prescribing Guidelines for Systemic Hormone Therapy in Menopausal Women.

Background: Systemic hormone therapy (HT) is effective for treating menopausal symptoms but also confers risks. Therefore, experts have developed clinical guidelines for its use.

Purpose: We assessed primary care guideline adherence in prescribing systemic HT, and associations between adherence and provider characteristics, in four Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities.

Guideline Adherence of Veterans Health Administration Primary Care for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding.

Background: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is common among primary care patients. We assessed the extent to which Veterans Health Administration (VA) primary care patients with AUB are receiving guideline-adherent primary care.

Methods: We identified women with AUB presenting to primary care providers across four VA health care systems from June 2013 to September 2015.