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ReviewContraception2026

Research gaps in evidence-based contraception guidance: US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2024, and US Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2024.

Naomi K Tepper, Kathryn M Curtis, Antoinette T Nguyen, Lauren B Zapata, Megan Cohen, Maura K Whiteman

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Review in Contraception, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Naomi K TepperDivision of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: ntepper@cdc.gov.
Kathryn M CurtisDivision of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Antoinette T NguyenDivision of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Lauren B ZapataDivision of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Megan CohenDivision of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Maura K WhitemanDivision of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes evidence-based contraception guidelines to assist healthcare providers when counseling patients about safe and effective contraceptive use. The US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (US MEC) and the US Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (US SPR) have been updated on a regular basis, with the most recent full update published in 2024. This paper provides an overview of research gaps identified throughout the update process and discusses in further depth evidence gaps on several topics, including risk of thrombosis with hormonal contraception, medications for intrauterine device placement, and bleeding irregularities during implant use. Expanded study on these research gaps is needed to bolster guidelines and to improve safe and effective delivery of contraception.

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ContraceptionEvidence-Based MedicineEvidence GapsPractice Guidelines as TopicCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.FemaleHumansIntrauterine DevicesUnited StatesContraceptionGuidelinesResearch gapsThrombosis

Identifiers

PMID40947041
PMCPMC12704012

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