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A major contribution of Dr. Christopher Tietze to the evaluation of contraceptive methods was in the area of application of life-table methodology to study contraceptive effectiveness. Potter (1966) was the first to propose using life tables to calculate the risk of becoming pregnant over a certain time period of use. This was a great improvement over the use of the then commonly used Pearl Index (1932) which produced a measure of effectiveness that did not control for duration of use.
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Forrest, J.D. (1986). Factors Contributing to Use-Effectiveness. In: Landy, U., Ratnam, S.S. (eds) Prevention and Treatment of Contraceptive Failure. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5248-8_8
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