Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 6 , Pages 566-568 , December 2009

Sociodemographic predictors of postvasectomy noncompliance

  • Yefim Sheynkin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 631 444 1919; fax: +1 631 444 7620.
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  • Alek Mishail

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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  • Praneeth Vemulapalli

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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  • Jacqueline Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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  • Hongshik Ahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Math and Statistics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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  • David Schulsinger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

Received 10 April 2009 ,Revised 15 May 2009 ,Accepted 20 May 2009.

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PII: S0010-7824(09)00276-5

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.05.123

Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 6 , Pages 566-568 , December 2009

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