Online services for birth control pills appear safe to use, study says.
To determine whether women were being properly screened before receiving birth control prescriptions, researchers from Harvard and the University of California, Davis, conducted a secret shopper study, sending seven shoppers “undercover” to buy birth control from nine different online providers, for a total of 63 virtual visits.
Five of the seven secret shoppers claimed to have medical conditions that would make taking certain oral contraceptives risky. Of the remaining two shoppers, one didn’t claim to have any medical conditions, and one said she may not be able to commit to taking a pill at the same time every day. Birth control prescriptions were written three times for the five secret shoppers with medical conditions that would put them at risk. In other words, only three out of 45 virtual visits led to inappropriate prescriptions. In one of these instances, birth control was prescribed to a woman for whom taking the medication would pose a serious health risk.“Generally, all patients fill out a questionnaire, a doctor reviews it and then writes the prescription when appropriate,” Jain said.
What’s more, none of the companies asked about a woman’s ability to stick to taking a pill every day, or discuss other options that may be a better fit, such as long-acting methods including intrauterine devices or
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