Provider Selection of Evidence-Based Contraception Guidelines in Service Provision : A Study in India, Peru, and Rwanda.

Eval Health Prof. 2007 Dec 21;

Authors: León FR, Lundgren R, Jennings V

Providers underutilize evidence-based practice guidelines as they prescribe contraceptives. To discern biases in guideline utilization by 172 providers of three countries, this study used observations from simulated clients trained to choose oral contraceptives. Providers implemented less than one third of the guideline set, but they addressed, more frequently than other guidelines, items categorized as essential by expert opinion (p

PMID: 18156443 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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