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Clinician practices for the management of amenorrhea in the adolescent and young adult athlete.

Carlson JL, Curtis M, Halpern-Felsher B

Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. carlson2@stanford.edu <carlson2@stanford.edu>

This study sought to describe clinician practices for the management of amenorrhea in the adolescent and young adult athlete. Clinicians adhered to certain guidelines but did not have a uniform "standard of care" for amenorrheic athletes. Almost 80% of clinicians reported insufficient guidelines for the management of this population.

Published 19 March 2007 in J Adolesc Health, 40(4): 362-5.
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