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YEAR: 2004

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Emergency contraception: prescribing practices of general internists

compared with other primary care physicians.

AUTHORS

Chuang CH; Waldman LJ; Freund KM; Ash AS

SOURCE

Contraception. 2004 Jan;69(1):43-45.

ABSTRACT

Primary care physicians of all specialties should be familiar with prescribing emergency contraception (EC). We

conducted a mail survey of 282 randomly sampled physicians in general internal medicine (31%), family medicine

(34%) and obstetrics-gynecology (35%). Experience with prescribing EC significantly differed by specialty (63% of

general internists, 76% of family physicians, and 94% of obstetrician-gynecologists, p < 0.0001). Controlling for year

of graduation, gender, religion and practice location, family physicians [adjusted odds ratio (OR): 2.5, 95%

confidence interval (CI): 1.2-5.2] and obstetrician-gynecologists (adjusted OR: 11.2, 95% CI: 4.0 -31.3) were still

significantly more likely to have ever prescribed EC than general internists. Efforts to increase awareness and

knowledge of EC should be aimed at general internists since they provide primary care for many reproductive age

women. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT1T 544-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Emergency contraception: prescribing practices of general

internists compared with other primary care physicians.", is(are) Chuang CH; Waldman LJ; Freund KM; Ash AS.

The source of this article is "Contraception. 2004 Jan;69(1):43-45.". This article was published in 2004 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 544-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 544

This article is peer-reviewed.

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