OBJECTIVE To determine the risks of short term adverse events in adolescent and older women undergoing medical abortion. DESIGN Population based retrospective cohort study. SETTING Finnish abortion register 2000-6. PARTICIPANTS All women (n = 27,030) undergoing medical abortion during 2000-6, with only the first induced abortion analysed for each woman. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Incidence o...

Boundary work refers to the strategies deployed by professionals in the arenas of the public, the law and the workplace to define and defend jurisdictional authority. Little attention has been directed to the role of documents in negotiating professional claims. While boundary work over induced abortion has been extensively documented, few studies have examined jurisdictional disputes over the ...

BACKGROUND Abortion is illegal in most of Mexico, except in the case of rape or physical risk to the mother, but there are several indicators that suggest that at least in Mexico City, society would like to have a more liberal law. The present study was performed to learn what several groups of physicians and medical students residing outside of Mexico City think in this regard. METHODS Seven...

Termination of pregnancy is commonly performed in the practice of gynaecology and can be conducted via the medical or surgical routes. Complications can arise from both routes and may be physical or psychological in nature. Interventions should be implemented to make the process more bearable for the patient such as facilitating abortion at home, reducing the need for clinic follow-up and provi...

INTRODUCTION Currently, we lack understanding of the content, quality and impact of patient decision aids to support decision-making between medical and surgical methods of early abortion. We plan to undertake a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature to identify, appraise and describe the impact of early abortion method decision aids evaluated quantitatively (Part I), and an environmenta...

The following guidelines reflect a collation of the evaluable medical literature about surgical abortion prior to 7 weeks of gestation. Early surgical abortion carries lower risks of morbidity and mortality than procedures performed later in gestation. Surgical abortion is safe, practicable and successful as early as 3 weeks from the start of last menses (no gestational sac visible on vaginal u...