Ethnic differences in hormone replacement prescribing patterns

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 663-669

  Brown, Arleen F ^a,b   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^a,b   Whitaker, Eric E ^a,b   Posner, Samuel F ^a,b   Alexander, Mark ^a,b   Gathe, Julia ^a,b   Washington, A Eugene ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Hormone replacement therapy; Physician prescribing; Postmenopausal women; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG USE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRESCRIPTION; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGED; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTMENOPAUSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032735966     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.10118.x     Document Type: Article

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