Primary care specialists roughly twice as likely to insert the birth control device incorrectly, a new study found.
SAN FRANCISCO — Primary care providers placed contraceptive intrauterine devices incorrectly nearly twice as often as ob.gyn. providers at a single institution, according to data presented at the
Kevin Ault, MD, a professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, was not involved in the study but said it was not surprising. The researchers conducted a retrospective review of all adult women's ultrasounds from the ob.gyn. department of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine between 2017 and 2020 in which an IUD was documented. Two physicians certified by the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine interpreted the images to determine whether the IUD was positioned correctly.
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