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(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Post coital contraception [letter] |
| British Journal of Family Planning. 1983 Jul;9(2):65. |
| On the topic of postcoital contraception with an ethinyl-estradiol-norgestrel combination (Yuzpe's method), a good |
| presentation was recently published by Tully (Tully B. Br J Family Planning 1983; 8: 119-124). Though she lost |
| approxiamately 23% out of her series of 511 patients, she estimated that 159 had had unprotected intercourse at |
| midcycle, while 102 had no idea whereabouts in the menstrual cycle sexual activity had taken place. However, she |
| could have calculated the ratio midcycle/nonmidcycle in her series to be 159/250. Since she believed she would |
| have heard about any pregnanc in the lost-to-follow-up group, the number of midcycle exposures of the complete |
| series is 159/250x511 or 325 cases. Such extrapolation can be performed with the lost-to-follow-up-group, as the |
| fact that they did not return cannot possibly be linked to the day the unprotected intercourse took place. The outcome |
| of 8 pregnancies at midcycle exposure in 325 cases produced a midcycle pregnancy rate of 2.5% instead of the 5% |
| mentioned. Since for the 50 mg DES (Morris' method) or 5 mg EE2 (Haspels' method) pregnancy rates vary from 0- |
| 2.4% and midcycle rates from 0-2.1% in the literature (Population Reports 1976, Series J9), I believe her result to be |
| better than she considered herself. Therefore Yuzpe's method can be considered an equally effective alternative |
| postcoital hormonal method of contraception. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT5T 2085-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Post coital contraception [letter]", is(are) VanSanten MR. |
| The source of this article is "British Journal of Family Planning. 1983 Jul;9(2):65.". This article was published in |
| 1983 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT5T 2085-06. All rights reserved with |
| PubHealth.info) PIN: 22085 |
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