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The Performance of Fertility Awareness-based Method Apps Marketed to Avoid Pregnancy

Marguerite Duane, Alison Contreras, Elizabeth T. Jensen and Amina White
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2016, 29 (4) 508-511; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2016.04.160022
Marguerite Duane
From the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS), Dayton, OH (MD, AC); the Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (MD); the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (ETJ); and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (AW).
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Alison Contreras
From the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS), Dayton, OH (MD, AC); the Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (MD); the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (ETJ); and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (AW).
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Elizabeth T. Jensen
From the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS), Dayton, OH (MD, AC); the Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (MD); the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (ETJ); and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (AW).
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Amina White
From the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS), Dayton, OH (MD, AC); the Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (MD); the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (ETJ); and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (AW).
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Marguerite Duane, Alison Contreras, Elizabeth T. Jensen, Amina White
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Jul 2016, 29 (4) 508-511; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2016.04.160022

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