Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 304-308 , April 2010

Cost–benefit analysis of state- and hospital-funded postpartum intrauterine contraception at a university hospital for recent immigrants to the United States

  • Maria Isabel Rodriguez

      Affiliations

    • Center for Clinical and Policy Perinatal Research, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Tel.: +1 415 206 8358; fax: +1 415 206 3112.
    • ,
  • Aaron B. Caughey

      Affiliations

    • Center for Clinical and Policy Perinatal Research, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • ,
  • Alison Edelman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics AND Gynecology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
    • ,
  • Philip D. Darney

      Affiliations

    • Center for Clinical and Policy Perinatal Research, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • ,
  • Diana Greene Foster

      Affiliations

    • Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

Received 27 August 2009 ,Revised 27 October 2009 ,Accepted 5 November 2009.

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☆ Financial disclosure: This study was funded by an anonymous donor.

PII: S0010-7824(09)00486-7

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.11.002

Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 304-308 , April 2010

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