RU OK? The acceptability and feasibility of remote technologies for follow-up after early medical abortion

Contraception

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-35

  Bracken, Hillary ^a   Lohr, Patricia A ^b   Taylor, Jeanette ^b   Morroni, Chelsea ^b   Winikoff, Beverly ^a  

^a GYNUITY HEALTH PROJECTS   (United States)

^b Bpas   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Low sensitivity pregnancy test; Mifepristone; Telephone; Text message

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ABORTION; MOBILE PHONE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEPHONE; TEXT MESSAGING; UNITED KINGDOM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INDUCED ABORTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

MIFEPRISTONE; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL, SYNTHETIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MIFEPRISTONE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEPHONE; TEXT MESSAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901803951     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: 18790518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2014.03.016     Document Type: Article

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