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This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they exist. The article ends with the authors' clinical recommendations.

A healthy, multiparous 23-year-old woman requests advice about contraception. Her last child was conceived while she was using oral contraceptives, which she took irregularly. She wants no more children and desires a highly effective and long-acting method of contraception. She is sexually active in a monogamous relationship and had been treated for gonococcal cervicitis at the age of 16 years. She has . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Clinical Problem

Strategies and Evidence

IUDs

Progestin Implants

Tubal Sterilization

Vasectomy

Areas of Uncertainty

Guidelines

Conclusions and Recommendations

Source Information

From the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (H.B.P.); and the Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (K.M.C.).

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Long-Acting Methods of Contraception
Greenberg J. A., Sarne D. H., Peterson H. B., Curtis K. M.
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N Engl J Med 2006; 354:645-646, Feb 9, 2006. Correspondence

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