Women’s Satisfaction With Abortion Care in Academic Family Medicine Centers
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The primary study aim was to describe patient satisfaction with abortion care in family medicine centers (FMCs).
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Women’s Satisfaction With Abortion Care in Academic Family Medicine Centers
Post-Abortion Self-Care Card
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This 4.25″ x 5.5″ card offers a holistic lens to counseling and provides patients with information on how to care for themselves during or after an abortion with a focus on time, space, support, nourishment, and mindfulness. The card also provides a music playlist featuring BIPOC artists and a “RAIN” meditation. Art by Priya Handa,…
National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center
This website, developed by the Fenway Institute, contains an extensive library of learning modules, videos, webinars, and other resources to support health care organizations optimize quality, cost-effective, and dignified care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and all sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) people. Link: https://www.lgbtqiahealtheducation.org/resources/
Approach to Patients Undergoing Self-managed Medication Abortion
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This resource shares common questions and concerns clinicians may hear about self-managed abortion (SMA) and how you can answer patient questions and share important information. Some highlights include: “How do I know the pills are real?”, “What’s the best way to use the pills?”, and “Can anyone tell that I used these pills?”
Clinical practice handbook for safe abortion
This comprehensive reference, published by the World Health Organization, is a useful resource for clinicians in various settings to provide safe abortion care and to treat complications. Link: http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/unsafe_abortion/clinical-practice-safe-abortion/en/
Clinical Mentoring and Provider Support for Abortion-Related Care
An IPAS training manual for clinical mentors and others providing clinical and programmatic support to health-care providers offering abortion-related care. Includes content, activities and materials to improve knowledge, attitudes and skills for clinical mentoring and provider support.
Structures & Self: Advancing Equity and Justice in SRH
This course from Innovating Education, Structures & Self: Advancing Equity and Justice in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, is a learner-led, justice-informed curriculum designed to teach clinical learners to consider how systems of power and legacies of structural oppression impact their care for patients.
Clinicians’ Perspectives on Mifepristone Regulations in Primary Care
This publication details an exploratory study of US primary care clinicians’ perspectives on the effects of mifepristone restrictions, including US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, on access to medication abortion and early pregnancy loss (EPL) management in primary care. Protocols including mifepristone are the most effective medication regimens for medication abortion and EPL management.…
Access, Delivered: A Toolkit for Providers Offering Medication Abortion
A step-by-step guide on initiating medication abortion services within your primary care practice.
Practical Guide on How to Provide Abortion Care at FQHCs and Title X Health Centers
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This guidance is intended to assist providers in understanding and navigating the restrictions imposed by federal law on the use of federal funding to provide or facilitate the provision of abortion services.