Patient-centered Approach

Additional barriers and unique challenges to accessing sexual and reproductive health care services.

The CDC’s 2020 recommendations for evidence-based STD care, telehealth abortion consultations to help patients overcome barriers to care, a systematic review of the use of misoprostol prior to IUD insertion, and more.

The importance of patient-centered contraceptive counseling, expedited scheduling of interval tubal ligation as a way to improve access to sterilization, a study of barriers to IUD access for adolescent patients, and more.

Talking with patients and their families about sexual and reproductive health conversations

Talking to your patients with HIV about their transmission risk

Using the principles of explicit consent to give patients better care

We can only listen when we create a space for the patient to speak. Listening can be augmented through open-ended questions. During a period of listening, consider opting for one open-ended question in lieu of a series of closed-ended questions.

Here’s what you and your patients should know about these two (very similar) hormonal IUDs.