Sentences with phrase «obtain emergency contraception»

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To increase access to ECs, in December 2000 British Columbia became the first province to grant independent prescriptive authority to specially trained pharmacists, enabling them to provide emergency contraception without a physician's prescription.14 Our aim was to determine whether granting prescriptive authority to pharmacists would result in women obtaining ECs from pharmacists instead of their physicians, and whether the number of overall EC prescriptions would increase.