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YEAR:

2004

CATEGORY:

Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

FFPRHC Guidance (January 2004). The copper intrauterine device as long-term

contraception.

AUTHORS

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Faculty of Family Planning

and Reproductive Health Care. Clinical Effectiveness Unit.

SOURCE

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 2004 Jan;30(1):29-42.

ABSTRACT

This Guidance provides information for clinicians providing women with copper-bearing intrauterine devices as long-

term contraception. A key to the grades of recommendations, based on levels of evidence, is given at the end of this

document. Details of the methods used by the Clinical Effectiveness Unit (CEU) in developing this Guidance and

evidence tables summarising the research basis of the recommendations are available on the Faculty website

(www.ffprhc.org.uk). Abbreviations (in alphabetical order) used include: acquired immune deficiency syndrome

(AIDS); actinomyces-like organisms (ALOs); automated external defibrillator (AED); blood pressure (BP); British

National Formulary (BNF); confidence interval (CI); copper-bearing intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD); emergency

contraception (EC); Faculty Aid to Continuing Professional Development Topic (FACT); levonorgestrel-releasing

intrauterine system (IUS); human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory

Agency (MHRA); non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs); odds ratio (OR); pelvic inflammatory disease (PID);

relative risk (RR); Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG); Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines

Network (SIGN); sexually transmitted infection (STI); termination of pregnancy (TOP); World Health Organization

(WHO); WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria (WHOMEC); WHO Selected Practice Recommendations (WHOSPR).

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT1T 560-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "FFPRHC Guidance (January 2004). The copper intrauterine

device as long-term contraception.", is(are) Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Faculty of Family

Planning and Reproductive Health Care. Clinical Effectiveness Unit.. The source of this article is "Journal of Family

Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 2004 Jan;30(1):29-42.". This article was published in 2004 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 560-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 560

This article is peer-reviewed.

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