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Gynecology
General internists are less likely to prescribe emergency contraception
March 15th, 2004
General internists are less likely to prescribe emergency contraception. According to recent research published in the journal Contraception, "primary care physicians of all specialties should be familiar with prescribing emergency contraception (EC). We conducted a mail survey of 282 randomly sampled physicians in general internal medicine (31%), family medicine (34%) and obstetrics-gynecology (35%). Experience with prescribing EC significantly differed by specialty (63% of general internists, 76% of family physicians, and 94% of obstetrician-gynecologists, p < 0.0001)." "Controlling for year of graduation, gender, religion and practice...
Source: OBGYN & Reproduction Week (2004-03-15)
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