Year: 1998
Type: letter
Abstract: To the Editor: Glasier and Baird (July 2 issue)1 found that emergency contraception was used responsibly by women who were given the appropriate medication to keep at home. Making emergency contraception available in this way is consistent with the objectives of a project implemented in community pharmacies in Washington State. Under collaborative drug-therapy agreements developed jointly by physicians and pharmacists, women may obtain emergency contraceptive pills in advance of or in response to an immediate need directly from pharmacists without first contacting their health care providers. This program does not make emergency contraception available without prescription but rather, after a . . .
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
Authors: Jacqueline S. Gardner, Timothy S. Fuller, Jane Hutchings
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2035691892