Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39625591›Full record

ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2025

Improving Access to Contraception Care at a Local Nonprofit Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project.

Olivia Croskey, Cecilia Norris

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Olivia CroskeyUniversity of Iowa College of Nursing, 807 Woodside Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52246, USA. ocroskey@uiowa.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-2166-166X
Cecilia NorrisIowa City Free Medical Clinic, Iowa City, IA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One Midwest, non-profit clinic aimed to increase access to contraceptive services by improving their care delivery process through the implementation of a population-specific, contraception education program. The program included patient education, timely follow-up appointments, and free contraception. In this quality improvement project, a total of twenty-two mostly Spanish-speaking women signed up for a group education session that lasted thirty minutes and was offered monthly. The session was led by a female, bilingual provider and focused on contraception benefits, side effects, and common myths. After the session, the clinic offered same-day initiation of contraception for oral contraceptives, Depo-Provera injections, and Nexplanon implants. In this clinic, offering the class in conjunction with immediate initiation of the chosen birth control method decreased the average time to care delivery, showing a positive impact on access to these essential services.

Indexed as

Ambulatory Care FacilitiesContraceptionHealth Services AccessibilityHispanic or LatinoQuality ImprovementAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansOrganizations, NonprofitPatient Education as TopicYoung AdultContraceptionImmigrantQuality-improvementUnderservedWomen’s health

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.