Ruling out pregnancy among family planning clients: The impact of a checklist in three countries

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 311-315

  Stanback, John ^a   Diabate, Fatimata ^b   Dieng, Thierno ^c   de Morales, Telma Duarte ^d   Cummings, Stirling ^a   Traoré, Mahamodou ^e  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b AWARE Project   (Ghana)

^c Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Sante de la Reproduction   (Senegal)

^d Asociacion Pro Bienestar del la Familia de Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^e Institut National de Recherche en Sante Publique Mali   (Mali)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; FAMILY PLANNING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MALI; SENEGAL; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MENSTRUATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MENSTRUATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFUSAL TO TREAT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33644867347     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2005.00073.x     Document Type: Article

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