Contraception
Volume 82, Issue 4 , Pages 324-330 , October 2010

Obstetrician–gynecologist physicians' beliefs about emergency contraception: a national survey

  • Ryan E. Lawrence

      Affiliations

    • Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Kenneth A. Rasinski

      Affiliations

    • Section of General Internal Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    • ,
  • John D. Yoon

      Affiliations

    • Section of Hospital Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    • The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    • ,
  • Farr A. Curlin

      Affiliations

    • Section of General Internal Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    • The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Received 2 April 2010 ,Revised 27 April 2010 ,Accepted 29 April 2010.

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☆ Funding: This study was supported by grants from the Greenwall Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1 K23 AT002749, to Farr Curlin). Funding agencies did not participate in study design, data acquisition, analysis, interpretation, writing or submission.

PII: S0010-7824(10)00316-1

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.04.151

Contraception
Volume 82, Issue 4 , Pages 324-330 , October 2010

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