{"title":"Personal hormone monitoring for contraception.","authors":"J Bonnar, G Freundl, R Kirkman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 3","pages":"178-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21835276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breast and pelvic examinations in women taking oral contraceptives","authors":"","doi":"10.1783/147118900101194427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1783/147118900101194427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"59 1","pages":"166 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79018705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S Rowlands, H Devalia, R Lawrenson, J Logie, B Ineichen
{"title":"Repeated use of hormonal emergency contraception by younger women in the UK.","authors":"S Rowlands, H Devalia, R Lawrenson, J Logie, B Ineichen","doi":"10.1783/147118900101194562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1783/147118900101194562","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A cohort of women aged 14-29 in 1993 was identified from the General Practice Research Database and followed up for a period of 4 years. Patient files were searched for evidence of use of emergency contraception and regular contraception. Of the 95 007 women, 15 105 (16%) had received emergency contraception during the study period (an average of 5% per annum). There was a small year on year increase in uptake of emergency contraception between 1994 and 1997. Only 4% of emergency contraception users received emergency contraception more than twice in any year. More than 70% of those who had no previous record of use of regular contraception had used regular contraception within 1 year of using emergency contraception. Teenagers were more likely than other age groups to use emergency contraception, to be repeat users of emergency contraception and to fail to start regular contraception after first use of emergency contraception until later in the study period. These results disprove the notion of widespread repeated use of emergency contraception. They show that provision of an emergency contraception service does not result in failure to initiate regular contraception or abandonment of regular contraception; rather they show many women using regular contraception for the first time after use of emergency contraception.</p>","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 3","pages":"138-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1783/147118900101194562","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21759679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What if the audit commission visited you?","authors":"E S Searle","doi":"10.1783/147118900101194607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1783/147118900101194607","url":null,"abstract":"Readers will be familiar with high profile media items, like the Audit Commission investigating national public institutions, and publicising rigorous critiques of their ‘value for money’. Family planning (FP) services may be interested to learn that the Audit Commission also perform ‘district audits’ (nothing to do with ‘clinical audit’) and that these can analyse broader concerns to do with quality of patient care and acceptability of services, not just efficiency. ‘Out of the blue’ our service was the focus of such a district audit conducted over just 3 weeks. We were asked what areas, apart from ‘value for money’, we would like investigated. We were keen to measure if our efforts of collaboration with Primary Care and other agencies had been effective. We learned that there is a national system (DATIS) to compare each FP service's expenditure per thousand patients. We also learned that being the subject of such an investigation need not be a threatening experience, and can be an opportunity to review quality of care and demonstrate our cost effectiveness. This account is the report of the district audit team of our service and our attempts at collaboration.","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 3","pages":"152-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1783/147118900101194607","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21759682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"fpa 70th Anniversary","authors":"","doi":"10.1783/147118900101194580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1783/147118900101194580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"6 1","pages":"147 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73170394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical performance of the Nova-T380 IUD in routine use by the UK Family Planning and Reproductive Health Research Network: 12-month report.","authors":"M Cox, S E Blacksell","doi":"10.1783/147118900101194599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1783/147118900101194599","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Doctors working in general practice and at family planning clinics throughout the UK who collaborate in the UK Family Planning and Reproductive Health Research Network were responsible for the fitting of 572 Nova-T380 intra-uterine contraceptive devices (IUDs). The Nova-T (and formerly the identical Novagard) IUDs have copper with a surface area of 200 mm(2). The device used in this study, the Nova-T380, has copper with a surface area of 380 mm(2). The purpose of the study was to evaluate the pregnancy and complication rates of this new device, with its increased area of copper, in comparison with other published results, in the clinical setting of British general practice and family planning clinics. The 12-month cumulative life-table event rates were: pregnancy 0.8, expulsion 5.6, removal for bleeding or bleeding and pain 11.0. The continuation rate was 73.4. The pregnancy rate at 12 months showed good contraceptive performance. The increased surface area of copper was not associated with a reduced pregnancy rate, but as this was not a direct comparative study with the Nova-T, the influence of the increased area of copper must remain somewhat uncertain. This study found the discontinuation rate for bleeding problems and pain with bleeding to be higher than in other published studies. Other event rates were consistent with other published studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 3","pages":"148-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1783/147118900101194599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21759681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The clinical enquiry service; benign intracranial hypertension.","authors":"J Walsh, C Smith","doi":"10.1783/147118900101194445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1783/147118900101194445","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Considering how uncommon the condition is (3.3 cases per 100 000 women aged 15 to 44 years) the CEU has received a surprising number of enquiries about contraceptive options for women with a diagnosis of idiopathic benign interacranial hypertension.</p>","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 3","pages":"169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1783/147118900101194445","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21759688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greater understanding for Depo Provera®","authors":"","doi":"10.1783/147118900101194184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1783/147118900101194184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"23 1","pages":"108 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78916883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergency contraception","authors":"P. Davis","doi":"10.1783/147118900101194337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1783/147118900101194337","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"28 1","pages":"93 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78974915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological effects of sterilization in India.","authors":"M Puri","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 2","pages":"117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21737317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}