Friday, November 16, 2012

Should doctors add a birth control "vital sign"?

Should doctors add a birth control "vital sign"?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An effort to develop a birth control "vital sign" measure gets doctors to document women's use of contraception, but it doesn't make them any more likely to include family planning counseling during visits, according to a new study. The proposed "vital sign" consists of questions about contraception and pregnancy. "We were hoping that this would be a prompt for much more provision of counseling by clinicians and what we saw was it only minimally affected the type of counseling that women were given," said Dr. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com

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