Improving experience of medical abortion at home in a changing therapeutic, technological and regulatory landscape: a realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To inform UK service development to support medical abortion at home, appropriate for person and context.

Design

Realist review SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: Peer-reviewed literature from 1 January 2000 to 9 December 2021, describing interventions or models of home abortion care. Participants included people seeking or having had an abortion.

Interventions

Interventions and new models of abortion care relevant to the UK.

Outcome measures

Causal explanations, in the form of context-mechanism-outcome configurations, to test and develop our realist programme theory.

Results

We identified 12 401 abstracts, selecting 944 for full text assessment. Our final review included 50 papers. Medical abortion at home is safe, effective and acceptable to most, but cli

SUBMITTER: Baraitser P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9670095 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature