ReviewHuman reproduction (Oxford, England)2015
Emergency contraception. Widely available and effective but disappointing as a public health intervention: a review.
Review in Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03395756 (Investigation of the Potential for Intramuscular Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate as Emergency Contraception), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Investigation of the Potential for Intramuscular Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate as Emergency Contraception
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions for emergency contraception.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions for emergency contraception.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Cross-sectional study on the knowledge, attitude, and experience of emergency contraception among female students of the University of Sierra Leone.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring Postpartum Use of Advance Provision of Ulipristal Acetate and Its Promotion of Reproductive Autonomy.O&G open · 2025Article
- The Use and Effectiveness of Different Emergency Contraception Methods Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in a Greek Clinic: A Cross-Sectional, Comparative, Observational Study.Clinics and practice · 2025Article
- Over-the-counter procured emergency contraception among undergraduate students in a public University in Ghana.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2024Article
- The current status of emergency contraception use in reproductive-aged Korean women: a population-based internet survey.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Improving access to highly effective emergency contraception: an assessment of barriers and facilitators to integrating the levonorgestrel IUD as emergency contraception using two applications of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.Implementation science communications · 2022Article
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- The potential for intramuscular depot medroxyprogesterone acetate as a self-bridging emergency contraceptive.Contraception: X · 2021Article
- Ovulation: Parallels With Inflammatory Processes.Endocrine reviews · 2019Review
- Levonorgestrel only emergency contraceptive use and risk of ectopic pregnancy in Eldoret Kenya: a case-control study.The Pan African medical journal · 2018Article
- Emergency Contraception in Mexico: Trends in Knowledge and Ever-Use 2006-2014.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- Detection of ovulation, a review of currently available methods.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2017Review
- Choice of Emergency Contraceptive and Decision Making Regarding Subsequent Unintended Pregnancy.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2016Observational
- Association between knowledge about levonorgestrel emergency contraception and the risk of ectopic pregnancy following levonorgestrel emergency contraception failure: a comparative survey.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2016Article
- Novel contraceptive targets to inhibit ovulation: the prostaglandin E2 pathway.Human reproduction updateReview
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Abstract
Emergency contraception (EC) prevents pregnancy after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure. Use of EC has increased markedly in countries where a product is available over the counter, yet barriers to availability and use remain. Although effective in clinical trials, it has not yet been possible to show a public health benefit of EC in terms of reduction of unintended pregnancy rates. Selective progesterone receptor modulators developed as emergency contraceptives offer better effectiveness than levonorgestrel, but still EC is less effective than use of ongoing regular contraception. Methods which inhibit ovulation whenever they are taken or which act after ovulation to prevent implantation and strategies to increase the uptake of effective ongoing contraception after EC use would prevent more pregnancies.
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