Replacing hormone therapy-is the decline in prescribing sustained, and are nonhormonal drugs substituted?

Objectives: After two cautioning landmark studies in 2002 and 2003, a dramatic decrease in hormonal therapy (HT) prescribing for menopausal symptoms was seen. Our objectives were to (1) determine whether this decline in HT prescribing sustained until 2007 and (2) investigate nonhormonal drug prescribing for women who stopped HT. Methods: We analyzed drug dispensing data from community pharmacies in The Netherlands. For file first objective, we analyzed exposure prevalence of HT. For our second objective, we selected all women who were dispensed HT prescriptions between August 2002 and August 2... Mehr ...