Reversible Contraception Update: The Importance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
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Increasing use of long-acting reversible contraception.
23 p23 UPDATE informs you of changes in clinical practice. This week: contraception p26 PrAcTicAl PrOcEDUrEs illustrates procedures. This week: removing an indwelling catheter p28 gUiDED lEArNiNg includes online cPD. This week: law on advance decisions p30 DEVElOPmENT shows how nurses are developing practice. This week: evaluating telemedicine p32 rEsEArcH presents research papers. This week: s...
متن کاملEffectiveness of long-acting reversible contraception.
BACKGROUND The rate of unintended pregnancy in the United States is much higher than in other developed nations. Approximately half of unintended pregnancies are due to contraceptive failure, largely owing to inconsistent or incorrect use. METHODS We designed a large prospective cohort study to promote the use of long-acting reversible contraceptive methods as a means of reducing unintended p...
متن کاملLong-Term Reversible Contraception
Few data on the long-term efficacy of intrauterine devices (IUD) are available, and this article reports on the final 12-year experience with the TCu22OC and TCu380A devices from two randomized, multicenter trials conducted in 24 centers. A total of 3,277 and 1,396 women, respectively, were recruited for use of each device between 1981 and 1986 and followed at 3. 6, and 12 months after insertio...
متن کاملThe potential of long-acting reversible contraception to decrease unintended pregnancy.
The 80 million unintended pregnancies that occur worldwide each year (38% of all pregnancies) can justifiably be deemed an “epidemic.” These pregnancies result in 42 million induced abortions and 34 million unintended births — births that contribute substantially to the annual world population growth of 78 million [1,2]. Among developed countries, the US record of family planning is uniquely de...
متن کاملLessons from the contraceptive CHOICE project: the Hull long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) initiative.
AIM To discover whether a hand-out explaining the benefits of intrauterine contraceptives (IUCs) and implants could increase their uptake in Hull, UK. METHODS We developed a simple double-sided A4 hand-out. On one side was a script with pictures of copper and levonorgestrel IUCs next to a 20 pence coin and of an implant beside a hairgrip. On the other side was the three-tiered effectiveness c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0032-5481,1941-9260
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2009.07.2025