Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 446-451 , May 2010

Delays in request for pregnancy termination: comparison of patients in the first and second trimesters

  • Jessica W. Kiley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 312 695 8486; fax: +1 312 695 8711.
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  • Lynn M. Yee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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  • Cassandra M. Niemi

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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  • Joseph M. Feinglass

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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  • Melissa A. Simon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

Received 16 September 2009 ,Revised 16 December 2009 ,Accepted 27 December 2009.

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PII: S0010-7824(09)00559-9

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.12.021

Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 446-451 , May 2010

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