Contraception
Volume 77, Issue 1 , Pages 40-43 , January 2008

Self pregnancy testing in an urban family planning clinic: promising results for a new approach to contraceptive follow-up

  • Christopher M. Estes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Reproductive Health Services, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA. Tel.: +1 305 325 1455.
    • ,
  • Jahanett Ramierez

      Affiliations

    • Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Lorraine Tiezzi

      Affiliations

    • Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • ,
  • Carolyn Westhoff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA

Received 11 August 2007 ,Revised 17 September 2007 ,Accepted 17 September 2007.

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☆ The funding support for this study was from an anonymous foundation.

PII: S0010-7824(07)00421-0

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2007.09.005

Contraception
Volume 77, Issue 1 , Pages 40-43 , January 2008

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