Informing women about hormone replacement therapy: the consensus conference statement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The risks/benefits balance of hormone replacement therapy is controversial. Information can influence consumers' knowledge and behavior; research findings about hormone replacement therapy are uncertain and the messages provided by the media are of poor quality and incomplete, preventing a fully informed decision making process. We therefore felt that an explicit, rigorous and structured assessment of the information needs on this issue was urgent and we opted for the organisation of a national consensus conference (CC) to assess the current status of the quality of information on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and re-visit recent research findings on its risks/benefits.

Methods

We chose a structured approach based on the traditional CC method combined with a s

SUBMITTER: Mosconi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2698849 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature