Avoiding Pregnancy

The Creighton Model FertilityCare System is highly effective for avoiding pregnancy without medical side effects.

It is also cost-effective and applies to women of all reproductive categories.

Use Effectiveness of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System
for Avoiding Pregnancy by Centers:
Five-Study Composite and Ordinal Month of Use
Parameter
Creighton
University
St. John's Mercy
Hospital
St. Francis
Hospital
St. Joseph
Hospital
Marquette
Nursing Center
Five-study
Composite
Study year
1980
1980
1985
1989
1994
1994
# of couples
286
273
378
697
242
1,876
# of months practiced
2,224 (a)
1,980 (a)
2,471 (a)
7,084 (b)
1,820 (b)
17,130 (b)
Ordinal Month
Method Effectiveness
1
100
100
100
100
100
100
6
99.6
99.6
99.4
100
99.6
99.8
12
99.6
99.6
99.1
99.8
98.7
99.5 (c)
18
N/A
N/A
N/A
99.8
N/A
99.5 (c)
Ordinal Month
Use Effectiveness
1
100
99.6
99.7
100
100
99.9
6
95.8
96.4
97.3
98.4
98.7
97.9
12
94.6
95.1
96.2
97.2
97.9
96.8 (c)
18
N/A
N/A
N/A
97.1
N/A
96.4 (c)

Reference: Journal of Reproductive Medicine, June 1998, Vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 495-502.

(a) Through 12 ordinal months
(b) Through 18 ordinal months
(c) The table reports net rates

Gross rates were also calculated for the five-study composite and are as follows:

N/A = not applicable

Numbers in boldface indicate composite data (vertical) and 12th ordinal month data (horizontal).