Department of Ophthalmology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0374, Japan. nshoji@kitasato-u.ac.jp.
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.). Electronic address: ebirch@retinafoundation.org.
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
From the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX (E.E.B., R.M.J., L.A.H., S.E.M., M.D., K.R.K.), Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (E.E.B., K.R.K.).
Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Radio Electronics and Multimedia Technology, Warsaw University of Technology.
Degradable and environmentally responsive polymers have been actively developed for drug delivery and regenerative medicine applications, yet inadequate consideration of their compatibility with termi...
Sterilization of females is considered one of the most prevalent contraceptive techniques among women in the United States. There are many surgical sterilization procedures including salpingectomy, tu...
In order to review the latest literature on the topic, we searched electronic databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane library for all eligible studies from May 1st 2018 until ...
In addition to reviewing major guidelines in the United States, 19 recent studies met our eligibility criteria and were included in this review. We grouped the findings under the following headings: a...
Bilateral salpingectomy and techniques of tubal ligation or occlusion continue to be effective procedures with good safety profiles. All techniques have similar surgical outcomes and long-term success...
We address the ethical and legal considerations for elective tubal sterilization in young, nulliparous women in Canada, with comparison with the United States and the United Kingdom. Professional guid...
Laparoscopic tubal ligation is the most prevalent method of contraception amongst India's rural and urban poor. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan in 2012-2013, this pap...
To analyze the decision-making process of both male and female sterilization in order to improve counselling and prevent regret after sterilization in the future....
An online questionnaire regarding sterilization (counselling, sources of information and regret) was promoted on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. A total of 1107 men and women who had undergone or cons...
A total of 88.9 % of the sterilized group and 67.4 % in the considered group responded that they felt well informed when they considered sterilization. However, less than half of the participants in b...
Findings of this study provide insight in the decision-making process regarding sterilization. There is a lack of knowledge of different methods of sterilization and 7.7% regrets their sterilization a...
In India, sterilisation is the most frequent method of modern contraception, and is primarily used by women. The contemporaneous assessment of sterilisation literature focuses only on trends and patte...
To evaluate if telehealth consultations would impact the likelihood of patients following through with vasectomies....
We utilized electronic medical records from the past 5 years to retrospectively evaluate male patients undergoing a sterilization consult. Telehealth consultations have been offered since March 2020 d...
There were a total of 369 patients who underwent a telehealth male sterilization consultation and 1664 patients who were seen in the office. We found that 66.9% of telehealth patients ultimately under...
Only 2/3 of the men completing a vasectomy consult receive a subsequent vasectomy. Both in-office and telehealth consultations resulted in comparable rates of vasectomy. This is the first study to rep...
With abortion no longer deemed a constitutional right in the United States (US), the importance of effective contraceptive methods cannot be overstated. Both male sterilization (vasectomy) and female ...
We suggest that the discrepancy in sterilization rates is attributable to the burdens of pregnancy and birth experienced by women, beliefs that pregnancy prevention is a woman's responsibility, a dear...
Recent reports suggest that court rulings restricting abortion access and looming threats to contraceptive legality and accessibility may be prompting a national increase in male sterilization....
Medicaid, unlike any other insurance mechanism, imposes a consent requirement on female patients desiring sterilization that must be completed at least 30 days, but no more than 180 days, before steri...
This study aimed to explore the influence of insurance status on the achievement of postpartum sterilization after a self-reported unwanted birth in a nationally representative sample....
This was a retrospective cohort analysis using data from the 2013-2015 National Survey of Family Growth. The National Survey of Family Growth uses a stratified, multistage clustered sample to make nat...
In an adjusted and inverse probability of treatment weight balanced analysis of a weighted national sample representing 4,164,304 people (416 respondents), Medicaid-insured birthing people with histor...
This study adds to mounting evidence that insurance type plays a significant role in the achievement of desired postpartum sterilization, with individuals with Medicaid less likely to undergo the proc...
Sterilization is the only family planning method that involves relatively large amount compensation. So, the study attempts to examine the role of incentives received against the sterilization procedu...
The study used data from the fourth round of National Family Health Survey, 2015-16, which gathered the information on sterilization regret from 1,94,207 ever-married women. Multivariate logistic anal...
Results show that women who have received compensation were 33% less likely to report sterilization regret. It was found that 70% of women who undergone sterilization in public facility didn't incur a...
The study calls for a need to standardize the cost of sterilization procedure in India's health facilities. A good alternative for reducing the cost could be Public-Private Partnership....
