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Comment on ‘Impact of UK Medical Eligibility Criteria implementation on prescribing of combined hormonal contraceptives’
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- epidemiology
- family planning service provision
- general practice
- hormonal contraception
- oral contraceptives
I read the article by Briggs and colleagues1 with interest as it is, to my knowledge, the only study to assess the impact of the implementation of the UK Medical Eligibility Criteria on general practice prescribing of combined hormonal contraceptives (CHCs) in the UK. However, I would like to point out a limitation of this study.
As the authors have stated, oral contraception can be accessed on prescription from a general practitioner (GP) and these data are captured in the therapy table in the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) – the data …