Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding postpartum contraception among 100 mother-father pairs leaving a Sri Lankan maternity hospital after childbirth.
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Hemantha Senanayake, Senior Lecturer, and SA Seneviratne and Viraj Kariyawasam, Research Assistants, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Correspondence: HS, e-mail: < [email protected]>. (Competing interests: none declared). Received 19 October 2005 and revised version accepted 18 November 2005 3. Rotchford AP, Rotchford KM, Machattie T, Gill GV. Assessing diabetic controlreliability of methods available
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Ceylon medical journal
دوره 51 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006