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Emergency contraception

Adolescent health experts need to increase their knowledge about emergency contraception's safety and effects on young women's behaviors, a nationwide survey suggested.

Researchers surveyed 167 physicians about their attitudes, prescribing and counseling practices for emergrency contraception, the most common of which is an oral regimen of 200 mcg of ethinyl estradiol and 1.0 mg of norgestrel taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse and repeated 12 hours later.

Results showed:

• only 14 percent limit the number of times they will provide emergency contraception to a single patient;

• 32 percent will prescribe emergency contraceptives over the phone, compared with 64 percent who first require a pregnancy test;