Racial variation in tubal sterilization rates: Role of patient-level factors

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-22

  Borrero, Sonya ^a,b   Abebe, Kaleab ^a   Dehlendorf, Christine ^c   Schwarz, Eleanor Bimla ^a   Creinin, Mitchell D ^a,d   Nikolajski, Cara ^a,b   Ibrahim, Said ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

disparities; knowledge and attitudes; race ethnicity; Tubal sterilization

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOREIGN BODY; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION; VASECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STERILIZATION, TUBAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650416170     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.05.031     Document Type: Article

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