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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2014 Nov 26;25(1):22–27. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2014.09.006

Table 4.

EMR data on PID and pelvic pain within 3-months following visit for EC or walk-in pregnancy testing (N=947)

Contraceptive use in 3 months following index clinic visit*

Same-day IUD placement
% (n)
[95% CI]
n=31**
Delayed IUD placement
% (n)
[95% CI]
n=40
Hormonal method***
% (n)
[95% CI]
n=312
No prescription method****
% (n)
[95% CI]
n=564
PID diagnosis 6.5% (2)
[0.8–21%]
5.0% (2)
[0.6–16.9%]
1.9% (6)
[0.7–4.1%]
0.9% (5)
[0.3–2.1%]
Pelvic pain 48.4% (11)
[30.2–66.9%]
37.5% (15)
[22.7–54.2%]
21.8% (68)
[7.3–26.8%]
17.2% (97)
[14.2–20.6%]
*

Women with a prescription for more than one method within 3 months (12%) were considered to be using the most effective of their contraceptive methods. No significant difference were found between groups using Fisher’s exact p-value reported when cell values <5 and chi-square tests in all other cases.

**

3 women who had same-day IUDs placed less than 3 months before we abstracted had

***

Includes oral contraceptive pills, patch, ring, shot, emergency contraception, and implant.

****

Includes women who using condoms, rhythm, withdrawal, spermicide or no method.