Outpatient versus inpatient uterine polyp treatment for abnormal uterine bleeding: randomised controlled non-inferiority study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the effectiveness and acceptability of outpatient polypectomy with inpatient polypectomy.

Design

Pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled non-inferiority study.

Setting

Outpatient hysteroscopy clinics in 31 UK National Health Service hospitals.

Participants

507 women who attended as outpatients for diagnostic hysteroscopy because of abnormal uterine bleeding and were found to have uterine polyps.

Interventions

Participants were randomly assigned to either outpatient uterine polypectomy under local anaesthetic or inpatient uterine polypectomy under general anaesthesia. Data were collected on women's self reported bleeding symptoms at baseline and at 6, 12, and 24 months. Data were also collected on pain and acceptability of the pro

SUBMITTER: Cooper NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4370502 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature