This guide is intended to help clinicians incorporate the provision of Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) in their practices, whether working in clinic settings or in private practice. Addressing in advance a few critical management issues will greatly assist in easily integrating ECPs into routine practice. It is our hope that this guide will support practitioners who have elected to make this important option available to clients.

Recommendations made in this guide are based on research conducted by the Pacific Institute for WomenÕs Health in collaboration with the Family Planning Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania and the California Family Health Council. Clinicians and staff of a variety of clinic and hospital settings in Philadelphia shared with us their experiences with the provision of ECPs to diverse populations.1 We developed the guide using their experiences and earlier research conducted with women who had used ECPs at Planned Parenthood of New York City.The guide was field tested among twenty clinicians practicing in Los Angeles and several dozen clinicians and directors of reproductive health programs from throughout the country reviewed the draft.

Authors: Mary Ann Castle, PhD; and Francine Coeytaux, MPH; in partnership with Family Planning Council of Southeastern PA & CA Family Health Council
April 2000, 31 pages.

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