Twelve-month supply of short-acting contraception methods: Pharmacists’ perspectives on implementation of new state law

A qualitative study of clinicians' perspectives on a law that allows for a 12‐month supply of short‐acting contraceptives in Massachusetts: Barriers and facilitators to implementation

“…Barriers to implementation and suggestions to address them mainly focused on concerns regarding organization‐ and environmental‐level issues such as insurance coverage, the potential utility of EMR prescription defaults, and a need for more training for clinicians and pharmacists. Many of these findings such as decreasing patient burden, concerns with decreased patient contact, and issues with insurance coverage were consistent with a study of Massachusetts pharmacists' perspectives on the ACCESS law 20 . Inductively derived sub‐themes identified opportunities to further explore the potential role of paternalism, implicit bias, and patient autonomy in SARC prescribing decisions and clinicians' perceived autonomy in decision making with patients in relation to clinician's specialty.…”