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Intrauterine device (IUD)

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • GPs’ perspectives on prescribing intrauterine contraceptive devices [2017]

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Models of care for intrauterine device provision in Australian general practice [2023]

• BMC Women's Health
  • The levonorgestrel intrauterine device in Australia: analysis of prescribing data 2008–2012 [2018]

• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
  • Intrauterine devices/systems – Resources for general practice

Brazil

• Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP
  • Women's knowledge about Intrauterine Device and user satisfaction in Brazil: a systematic review [2025]

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Routine Pathology for Intrauterine Devices and Therapeutic Abortion: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Statement on Intrauterine Devices, Counselling and Pain Management [2022]
  • Canadian Contraception Consensus (Part 3 of 4): Chapter 7 – Intrauterine Contraception [2016]
  • Best Practices to Minimize Risk of Infection With Intrauterine Device Insertion [2014]

Denmark

• JAMA
  • Ectopic Pregnancy Risk in Users of Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine Systems With 52, 19.5, and 13.5 mg of Hormone [2023]

• Stroke
  • Risk of Stroke in Women Using Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine Device for Contraception [2024]

Ethiopia

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Expanding Access to the Intrauterine Device in Public Health Facilities in Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Study [2016]

Europe

• Contraception
  • Risk of uterine perforation with levonorgestrel-releasing and copper intrauterine devices in the European Active Surveillance Study on Intrauterine Devices [2015]

Finland

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Metabolomics profile of 5649 users and nonusers of hormonal intrauterine devices in Finland [2022]

France

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Profiles of copper intrauterine devices and levonorgestrel intrauterine systems users in France in 2019: A national observational population-based study [2023]

• JAMA
  • Association Between Doses of Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Systems and Subsequent Use of Psychotropic Drugs in France [2023]

Germany

• Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
  • Contraception: Comparison of hormonal IUD and copper IUD [2023]

International

• BMC Women's Health
  • Discontinuation rates of intrauterine contraception due to unfavourable bleeding: a systematic review [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • Systematic review of copper intrauterine contraception continuation in young nulliparous women based on intrauterine device type [2022]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Interventions to prevent or treat heavy menstrual bleeding or pain associated with intrauterine-device use [2022]

• Contraception
  • Recap of the sixth international symposium on intrauterine devices and systems for women's health [2022]
  • Worldwide use of intrauterine contraception: a review [2014]

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Contraception with levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system versus copper intrauterine device: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [2024]

• Reproductive Health
  • Provider and lay perspectives on intra-uterine contraception: a global review [2017]

• United Nations Population Fund
  • The TCu380A Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (IUD): Specification, Prequalification and Guidelines for Procurement, 2010 [2010]

• Updates in Surgery
  • In-office hysteroscopic removal of retained or fragmented intrauterine device without anesthesia: a cross-sectional analysis of an international survey [2022]

Iran

• Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
  • Intrauterine device survival in Iranian women: systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]

Kenya

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Expanding Access to a New, More Affordable Levonorgestrel Intrauterine System in Kenya: Service Delivery Costs Compared With Other Contraceptive Methods and Perspectives of Key Opinion Leaders [2016]
  • Introduction of the levonorgestrel intrauterine system in Kenya through mobile outreach: review of service statistics and provider perspectives [2014]

Low and middle income countries

• BMC Public Health
  • Expanding choice and access in contraception: an assessment of intrauterine contraception policies in low and middle-income countries [2019]

• Contraception
  • The promotion of intrauterine contraception in low- and middle-income countries: a narrative review [2017]

Nepal

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Knowledge and perceptions of the intrauterine device among family planning providers in Nepal: a cross-sectional analysis by cadre and sector [2015]

Netherlands

• BMC Primary Care
  • Regional variation in health care substitution for intrauterine device insertion: a retrospective cohort study [2024]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • What Have We Learned? Implementation of a Shared Learning Agenda and Access Strategy for the Hormonal Intrauterine Device [2022]

Sweden

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Association of levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device with gynecologic and breast cancers: a national cohort study in Sweden [2024]

• Contraception
  • Characteristics and hormonal contraception use patterns of levonorgestrel 13.5 mg intrauterine device users in Sweden 2014-2016 [2024]

• Public Understanding of Science
  • On the verge between the scientific and the alternative: Swedish women's claims about systemic side effects of the copper intrauterine device [2023]

United Kingdom

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Intrauterine Contraception

• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  • Intrauterine contraception: uterine perforation—updated information on risk factors [2015]

United States

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Best practices for reducing pain associated with intrauterine device placement [2025]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Intrauterine Contraception
  • Classifications for Intrauterine Devices

• Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy
  • Descriptive study of the real-world, long-term cost estimates and duration of use for hormonal and nonhormonal intrauterine devices using US commercial insurance claims [2023]

• Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
  • A clinical guideline for intrauterine device use in adolescents [2012]

• Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Practical Recommendations for Minimizing Pain and Anxiety with IUD Insertion [2024]
  • Evidence-Based Selection of Candidates for the Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Device (IUD) [2014]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Risks of Uterine Perforation and Expulsion Associated With Intrauterine Devices [2023]
  • Demographic, Reproductive, and Medical Risk Factors for Intrauterine Device Expulsion [2022]

• Patient preference and adherence
  • Understanding benefits and addressing misperceptions and barriers to intrauterine device access among populations in the United States [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • National assessment on the frequency of pain medication prescribed for intrauterine device insertion procedures within the Veterans Affairs Health Care System [2025]

• Society of Family Planning
  • Society of Family Planning Committee statement on IUD nomenclature [2022]
  • Use of intrauterine devices in nulliparous women [2017]
  • Use of the Mirena LNG-IUS and Paragard CuT380A intrauterine devices in nulliparous women [2010]

• StatPearls
  • Intrauterine Device Placement and Removal

• Ultrasonography
  • Ultrasonography of intrauterine devices [2015]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO statement on levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device nomenclature [2021]

Zambia

• BMC Women's Health
  • What are the prospects for the hormonal IUD in the public sector? A mixed-method study of the user population in Zambia [2022]

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