Surfing on the morning after: Analysis of an emergency contraception website

Contraception

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 195-199

  Gainer, Erin ^a   Sollet, Christian ^a   Ulmann, Marion ^a   Lévy, Delphine ^b   Ulmann, André ^a  

^a Laboratoire HRA Pharma   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Emergency contraception; Internet; Levonorgestrel; Morning after pill; Nonprescription drugs

Indexed keywords

LEVONORGESTREL; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; LIBRARIAN; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MIDWIFE; NURSE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; SPOTTING; STUDENT; TEACHER; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; FRANCE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION;

CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL, HORMONAL; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EID: 0037369593     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00491-2     Document Type: Article

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