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Can teenagers get emergency contraception in the ER?(FYI)(emergency rooms)(Brief article)
For teenagers who are too young to obtain emergency contraception without a prescription, a hospital emergency room may be the place to go for the method. However, a survey of physicians who care for children and adolescents in emergency rooms indicates that the pills are prescribed infrequently in that setting. (1) Although 85% of the 282 physicians who completed the online survey said they had prescribed emergency contraception for adolescents, 81% of this group had done so fewer than five times. Respondents acknowledged a wide range of barriers to provision, most frequently, concern about lack of follow-up (72% cited this concern). Four in 10 reported that it does not occur to them to discuss the method with a teenager who visits the emergency room for a concern related to a potential STD; one in four said that they do not ...
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