"They Go Hand in Hand": Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Core Values of Family Medicine and Abortion Provision Among Family Physicians Who Do Not Oppose Abortion.

Introduction: Most family physicians do not provide abortion care, despite an apparent alignment between the defined values of family medicine and provision of abortion in primary care. This study seeks to understand how family physicians themselves perceive the relationship between their specialty's values and abortion provision.

Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews in 2019 with 56 family physicians who do not oppose abortion in the United States.

Prioritizing patient experience: Validation of the person-centered contraceptive counseling measure as a performance measure.

Objective: A performance measure assessing how often patients experience patient-centered contraceptive counseling can inform quality improvement in contraceptive care and enable efforts to enhance equity in the provision of this care. We sought to test the validity and reliability of the Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling (PCCC) measure as a performance measure, in preparation for application for endorsement from the National Quality Forum.

Study Design: We combined data from two research studies, a statewide quality improvement assessment, and a dedicated data collection effort at nine sites, all collected between 2009 and 2019 at 22 total sites in the United States, to evaluate the validity and reliability of the four-item PCCC measure aggregated at the provider and facility level.

Family Physicians' Barriers and Facilitators in Incorporating Medication Abortion.

Purpose: Medication abortion (MAB) provision by family physicians has the potential to expand abortion access. However, there are documented individual and structural barriers to provision. This study investigates how family physicians in the United States (US) navigate the barriers impeding abortion provision in primary care.

Development of the Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling scale (PCCC), a short form of the Interpersonal Quality of Family Planning care scale.

Objective: Person-centeredness is a critical component of quality in family planning. We previously validated an 11-item Interpersonal Quality of Family Planning (IQFP) scale. We sought to create a parsimonious version of the scale in preparation for testing its appropriateness as a patient-reported outcome performance measure.

Breaking the silence in the primary care office: patients' attitudes toward discussing abortion during contraceptive counseling.

Objectives: Abortions are common health experiences in the United States, yet they are siloed from mainstream health care. To provide guidance on how clinicians could break down these silos, normalize conversations about abortion, and potentially improve patient experience and contraceptive decision-making, we sought to understand patient attitudes regarding discussing abortion during contraceptive counseling.

Study Design: In 2018, we completed in-depth semi-structured interviews with reproductive-aged women recruited from primary care clinics of two politically disparate regions within California.