Availability of emergency contraception in Massachusetts emergency departments

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 987-993

  Temin, Elizabeth ^a   Coles, Tara ^a   Feldman, James A ^a,b   Mehta, Supriya D ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Emergency contraception; Rape; Sexual assault; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONDOM; DRUG COST; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL WORKER; VICTIM;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CATHOLICISM; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, RELIGIOUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 25144474373     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.05.036     Document Type: Article

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