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August 2006, Vol 96, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1398-1401
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.061218

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Hospital Religious Affiliation and Emergency Contraceptive Prescribing Practices

Susan E. Rubin, MD, Surah Grumet, MD, MPH and Linda Prine, MD

Susan E. Rubin is with the Department of Family Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx, NY. Surah Grumet is with the Department of Family Medicine, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. Linda Prine is with the Department of Family Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Linda Prine, MD, 126 5th Avenue, Suite 805, New York, NY 10011 (e-mail: lindaprine{at}earthlink.net).

With access to reproductive health care eroding, examination of prescribing of contraception, including emergency contraception (EC), is important. We examined whether working in a family practice affiliated with a religious institution changes the likelihood of a provider prescribing EC. Our survey asked about EC prescribing practices in a range of situations. As predicted, practitioners in non–religiously affiliated practices reported higher rates of prescribing EC than those in religiously affiliated practices. In both cases, however, the practitioners’ prescribing patterns were inadequate.






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