Emergency Contraception
Epidemiological study in Barcelona identifies temporal EC use patterns
Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 18th, 2004
Among their findings:
*"EC accounted for 5.9% of all visits (n=95,288) and increased from 1.26% in 1994 to 9.82% in 2002 (p<0.001).
*"Reasons for EC were condom problems in 79.5% of cases.
*"EC was used only once by 93% of women."
The researchers tracked mean daily number of visits to obtain EC and found "they were significantly higher...
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