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A Novel Approach for the Administration of Medications and Fluids in Emergency Scenarios and Settings
Published on: November 9, 2016
Emergency contraception: prescribing practices of general internists compared with other primary care physicians
C H Chuang1, L J Waldman, K M Freund
1Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, 720 Harrison Avenue, Suite 1108, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Cynthia.chuang@bmc.org
Abstract:
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 location, family physicians [adjusted odds ratio (OR): 2.5, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.2-5.2] and obstetrician-gynecologists (adjusted OR: 11.2, 95% CI: 4.0-31.3) were still significantly more likely to have ever prescribed EC than general internists. Efforts to increase awareness and knowledge of EC should be aimed at general internists since they provide primary care for many reproductive age women.
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