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Outcomes of implementing the women's health assessment tool and clinical decision support toolkit
Terry Silvestrin1, Anna Steenrod2, Karin Coyne2
1MultiCare Tacoma Women's Specialists, Tacoma, WA, USA.
Aim:
To evaluate outcomes after implementing the women's health assessment tool (WHAT) and clinical decision support toolkit during annual well-women visits.
Methods:
An observational project involved women aged 45-64 years attending one of three medical sites in Washington (WA, USA). Responses to the WHAT questionnaire and patients' health resource utilization prepost toolkit implementation were analyzed.
Results:
A total of 110 women completed the WHAT questionnaire. Majority of women were postmenopausal (77.3%) and experienced depressive mood (63.6%), hot flashes (61.8%) or anxiety (60.9%) in the last 3 months. There was a 72.2% increase in the number of diagnoses made during the annual visit versus the previous 12 months.
Conclusion:
The WHAT/clinical decision support toolkit helped identify conditions relevant to mid-life women.
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