Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 292-298 , April 2010

Health care providers' knowledge about contraceptive evidence: a barrier to quality family planning care?

  • Christine Dehlendorf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF, CA 94143, USA
    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Health, UCSF, CA 94143, USA
    • ,
  • Kira Levy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF, CA 94143, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 415 206 8757; fax: +1 415 206 4527.
    • ,
  • Rachel Ruskin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Health, UCSF, CA 94143, USA
    • ,
  • Jody Steinauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Health, UCSF, CA 94143, USA

Received 5 August 2009 ,Revised 2 November 2009 ,Accepted 10 November 2009.

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PII: S0010-7824(09)00490-9

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.11.006

Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 292-298 , April 2010

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