Effectiveness and acceptability of "at home" versus "at hospital" early medical abortion - A lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions on hospitals' activity forced healthcare practitioners to innovate in order to provide continuity of care to patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of a newly established protocol for medical abortion and to measure the level of satisfaction of the patients who experienced abortion at home.

Methods

This retrospective study compared all the patients who had an early medical abortion at up to 9 weeks of gestation during the two drastically different periods between December 2018 and March 2021 ("hospital" and "home" groups). We evaluated the expulsion of the gestational sac as a primary outcome. The rates of infection, hemorrhage, retained trophoblastic material and need for sur

SUBMITTER: Mezela I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8563090 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature