[Screening for iron deficiency in menstruating women: an audit in general medical practice]

To evaluate their own performance in the screening for iron deficiency in menstruating woman, 58 general practitioners have searched in their case-histories the results of serum ferritin or serum iron associated to transferrin saturation dating from less than five years. That observation has been repeated two years later by 25 of them. The progression of the screening among the general practitioners who accepted to realize this audit was clear: from 45.1% to 59.1% women screened on the total of menstruating women aged over 18 and regularly consulting in consultations. The GP's participation in Lorraine remained low (2.7%), in spite of the choice of a frequent medical disorder, a simple procedure and a large diffusion.