Delayed pregnancy testing and second-trimester abortion: Can public health interventions assist with earlier detection of unintended pregnancy?

Contraception

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 400-406

  Swanson, Megan ^a   Karasek, Deborah ^b   Drey, Eleanor ^c   Foster, Diana Greene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Delay; Health knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Pregnancy; Pregnancy test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY TEST; PUBLIC HEALTH; SECOND TRIMESTER ABORTION; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; INDUCED ABORTION; PREGNANCY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900297270     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: 18790518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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