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Pearl Index: a standalone construct

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Reproductive health

a contraceptive failure rate expressed as the number of unintended pregnancies per 100 woman-years of exposure.

In reproductive health, Pearl Index refers to a contraceptive failure rate expressed as the number of unintended pregnancies per 100 woman-years of exposure. This meaning comes from Pearl (1933) in The Lancet.[1]

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exposure6 fields · 13 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs index5 fields · 11 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

Pearl, R. (1933). Factors in Human Fertility and Their Statistical Evaluation. The Lancet, 222(5741), 607-611. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(01)18648-4

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