Contraception
Volume 73, Issue 4 , Pages 408-414 , April 2006

Abortion education in nurse practitioner, physician assistant and certified nurse–midwifery programs: a national survey

  • Angel M. Foster

      Affiliations

    • Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 349 0045.
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  • Chelsea Polis

      Affiliations

    • Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • ,
  • Mary Kate Allee

      Affiliations

    • National Abortion Federation, Washington, DC 20036, USA
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  • Katherine Simmonds

      Affiliations

    • Abortion Access Project, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    • ,
  • Melanie Zurek

      Affiliations

    • Abortion Access Project, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    • ,
  • Ann Brown

      Affiliations

    • Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Received 20 September 2005 ,Revised 26 October 2005 ,Accepted 26 October 2005.

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PII: S0010-7824(05)00426-9

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2005.10.011

Contraception
Volume 73, Issue 4 , Pages 408-414 , April 2006

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