Contraception
Volume 82, Issue 3 , Pages 281-285 , September 2010

The effect of patient gynecologic history on clinician contraceptive counseling

  • Christine Dehlendorf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 415 206 8712; fax: +1 415 206 8387.
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  • Rachel Ruskin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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  • Philip Darney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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  • Eric Vittinghoff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
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  • Kevin Grumbach

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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  • Jody Steinauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

Received 5 December 2009 ,Revised 2 February 2010 ,Accepted 3 February 2010.

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PII: S0010-7824(10)00050-8

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.02.006

Contraception
Volume 82, Issue 3 , Pages 281-285 , September 2010

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