Contraception
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 237-244 , September 2008

SILCS diaphragm: postcoital testing of a new single-size contraceptive device

  • Jill L. Schwartz

      Affiliations

    • CONRAD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Arlington, VA 22209, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. CONRAD, Arlington, VA 22209, USA. Tel.: +1 703 524 4744; fax: +1 703 524 4770.
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  • Susan A. Ballagh

      Affiliations

    • CONRAD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA
    • Current address: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance CA 90509, USA.
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  • Mitchell D. Creinin

      Affiliations

    • University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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  • Robert W. Rountree

      Affiliations

    • Family Health International (FHI), Research Triangle Park, NC 27713, USA
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  • Maggie Kilbourne-Brook

      Affiliations

    • PATH, Seattle, WA 98107, USA
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  • Christine K. Mauck

      Affiliations

    • CONRAD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Arlington, VA 22209, USA
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  • Marianne M. Callahan

      Affiliations

    • CONRAD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Arlington, VA 22209, USA

Received 28 January 2008 ,Revised 1 April 2008 ,Accepted 24 April 2008.

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☆ Clinical trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, www.clinicaltrials.gov, NCT 00561613.

☆☆ Support for this study was provided by CONRAD through USAID funding and, in part, by National Institutes of Health General Clinic Research Center Grants M01RR000056 at the University of Pittsburgh.

PII: S0010-7824(08)00283-7

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.04.118

Contraception
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 237-244 , September 2008

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