Emergency Contraception

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 1830-1835

  Westhoff, Carolyn ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS LEVONORGESTREL; GESTAGEN; LEVONORGESTREL; MIFEPRISTONE; NORETHISTERONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; COPPER INTRAUTERINE DEVICE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS NORGESTREL; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRACEPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; NAUSEA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRESCRIPTION;

ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL-NORGESTREL COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, COPPER; MIFEPRISTONE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 0242317296     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp031990     Document Type: Article

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