title: Outcomes of implementing the women's health assessment tool and clinical decision support toolkit.
abstract: To evaluate outcomes after implementing the women's health assessment tool (WHAT) and clinical decision support toolkit during annual well-women visits.
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  The WHAT/clinical decision support toolkit helped identify conditions relevant to mid-life women.
authors.affiliation: MultiCare Tacoma Women's Specialists, Tacoma, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Silvestrin
authors.affiliation: Evidera, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Steenrod
authors.affiliation: Evidera, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Coyne
authors.affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., NY, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., NY, USA.
authors.forename: Canan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Esinduy
authors.affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., NY, USA.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kodsi
authors.affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., NY, USA.
authors.forename: Gayle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Slifka
authors.affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., NY, USA.
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Abraham
authors.affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., NY, USA.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Araiza
authors.affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., NY, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bushmakin
authors.affiliation: Pfizer, Inc., NY, USA.
authors.forename: Xuemei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D019584:Hot Flashes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017697:Premenopause; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health
keywords: clinical decision support system; health outcome; menopause