Emergency contraception

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 835-844

  Li, Hang Wun Raymond ^a,b   Lo, Sue Seen Tsing ^b   Ho, Pak Chung ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Wanchai   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

copper intrauterine device; emergency contraception; levonorgestrel; mifepristone; ulipristal acetate

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER INTRAUTERINE DEVICE; ELLA; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GESTAGEN; LEVONORGESTREL; MIFEPRISTONE; NORGESTREL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR MODULATOR; ULIPRISTAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PREGNANE DERIVATIVE;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; CONTRACEPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; META ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ORAL CONTRACEPTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVULATION INHIBITION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TABLET; YUZPE METHOD; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COPPER INTRAUTERINE DEVICE; DEVICES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; PROCEDURES; TIME;

CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, SYNTHETIC; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES, COPPER; LEVONORGESTREL; MIFEPRISTONE; NORPREGNADIENES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84906046415     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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