Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 2 , Pages 112-116 , February 2010

Intrauterine contraception in Saint Louis: a survey of obstetrician and gynecologists' knowledge and attitudes

Received 3 January 2009 ,Revised 5 August 2009 ,Accepted 7 August 2009.

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☆ This research was supported by a grant from an anonymous foundation. Individual investigators (JP and JA) were supported, in part, by a Mid-Career Investigator Award in Women's Health Research (K24 HD01298) and by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (UL1RR024992) and Grant Number KL2RR024994 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH. Information on NCRR is available at http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/. Information on Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise can be obtained from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/clinicalresearch/overview-translational.asp.

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Contraception
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