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Extracts from publications including:
<ul><li>Doctor</li>
<li>GP News</li>
<li>Pulse</li>
<li>Forum</li>
<li>Demography</li>
<li>International Journal of Fertility</li></ul>
Also includes:
<ul><li>IPPF Statement on Contraceptive Efficacy</li>
<li>IPPF Medical Bulletin</li>
<li>The Population Council Research Division's "A New Method for Estimating Contraceptive Failures", 1989</li>
<li>The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys's "Measures of Contraceptive Effectiveness and Their Uses", 1975</li>
<li>"Social and Personal Factors Involved in the Use-Effectiveness of the IUD" by R. Snowden</li>
<li>"Progress Report on Intra-uterine Devices" by Christopher Tietze, presented at the Eighth International Conference on Family Planning, 1967</li>
<li>"Cooperative Statistical Program for the Evaluation of Intra-Uterine Devices" by Christopher Tietze, 1966</li>
<li>"Clinical Results of Marginal Dose Contraception in the Puerperium: A Double-Blind Study" by W Budd Wentz, Ronald M Jaffe and Richard M Foxx, 1965</li>
<li>"The Current Status of Fertility Control" by Christopher Tietze, 1960</li>
<li>"Recommended Procedures for the Study of Use-Effectiveness of Contraceptive Methods" by Christopher Tietze and Sarah Lewit</li></ul>

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