Comprehensive abortion care: evidence of improvements in hospital-level indicators in Tigray, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Approximately 18% of maternal deaths in East Africa is attributable to unsafe abortion. Availability of comprehensive abortion care (CAC) services at all levels of the healthcare system, including medical abortion, has the potential to increase access to safe abortion thereby reducing the burden of unsafe abortion. This study sought to assess trends in abortion-related morbidity indicators in referral hospitals.

Design

Researchers conducted a secondary data analysis on retrospectively collected data.

Methods

Data analysed were collected from four hospitals in the Tigray region of Ethiopia that took part in a CAC pilot project. Providers were trained in mid-2009 to provide abortion services using all available technologies. Data records from hospitals were co

SUBMITTER: Prata N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3731730 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature