PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - ,
TI  - FFPRHC Guidance (April 2006) Emergency contraception
AID  - 10.1783/147118906776276323
DP  - 2006 Apr 01
TA  - Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
PG  - 121--128
VI  - 32
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/32/2/121.short
4100  - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/32/2/121.full
SO  - J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care2006 Apr 01; 32
AB  - This Guidance updates and replaces the previous Faculty recommendations on emergency contraception and is applicable to all professionals providing contraceptive services in primary and secondary care in the UK. A key to the grades of recommendations, based on levels of evidence, is given at the end of this document. Details of the methods used by the Clinical Effectiveness Unit in developing this Guidance and evidence tables summarising the research basis of the recommendations are available on the Faculty website (www.ffprhc.org.uk). Abbreviations (in alphabetical order) used include: EC, emergency contraception; IUD, copper-bearing intrauterine device; IUS, levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system; LH, luteinising hormone; LNG, levonorgestrel; PGD, patient group direction; SPC, Summary of Product Characteristics; STIs, sexually transmitted infections; UPSI, unprotected sexual intercourse.