Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 2 , Pages 133-139 , February 2010

Bridging emergency contraceptive pill users to regular contraception: results from a randomized trial in Jamaica

  • Dawn S. Chin-Quee

      Affiliations

    • Health Services Research Division, Applied Research Department, Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27713, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 919 544 7040; fax: +1 919 544 7261.
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  • Maxine Wedderburn

      Affiliations

    • HOPE Enterprises Ltd., 25 Burlington Avenue, Kingston 10, Jamaica, West Indies
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  • Conrad Otterness

      Affiliations

    • Health Services Research Division, Applied Research Department, Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27713, USA
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  • Barbara Janowitz

      Affiliations

    • Health Services Research Division, Applied Research Department, Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27713, USA
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  • Mario Chen-Mok

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics Division, Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27713, USA

Received 17 June 2009 ,Revised 26 August 2009 ,Accepted 30 August 2009.

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☆ The work on which this article is based was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

PII: S0010-7824(09)00410-7

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.08.015

Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 2 , Pages 133-139 , February 2010

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