Nonprescription Availability of Emergency Contraception in the United States: Current Status, Controversies, and Impact on Emergency Medicine Practice

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 461-471

  Ranney, Megan L ^a   Gee, Erin M ^a   Merchant, Roland C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; DANAZOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS LEVONORGESTREL; GESTAGEN; GONADOTROPIN ANTAGONIST; LEVONORGESTREL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIFEPRISTONE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NORETHISTERONE; NORGESTREL; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LIVER DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED STATES; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VOMITING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, DRUG; POLITICS; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33646036138     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.07.001     Document Type: Review

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