Contraception
Volume 77, Issue 4 , Pages 289-293 , April 2008

Predictors of delay in each step leading to an abortion

  • Diana G. Foster

      Affiliations

    • Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. UCSF Box 1744, San Francisco, CA 94143-1744, USA. Tel.: +1 415 206 2337.
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  • Rebecca A. Jackson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • ,
  • Kate Cosby

      Affiliations

    • Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • ,
  • Tracy A. Weitz

      Affiliations

    • Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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  • Philip D. Darney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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  • Eleanor A. Drey

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

Received 18 June 2007 ,Accepted 16 October 2007.

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☆ This study was funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

PII: S0010-7824(07)00507-0

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2007.10.010

Contraception
Volume 77, Issue 4 , Pages 289-293 , April 2008

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