Should healthcare professionals be advocating long-acting reversible contraception?

Women's Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-4

  Glasier, Anna ^a  

^a NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ETONOGESTREL; LEVONORGESTREL; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 59349101379     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17455057.5.1.1     Document Type: Editorial

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