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Rates of Serious Infection after Changes in Regimens for Medical Abortion

Author(s) -

Mary Fjerstad,

James Trussell,

Irving Sivin,

E. Steve Lichtenberg,

Vanessa Cullins

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0809146

Subject(s) - misoprostol , medicine , medical abortion , mifepristone , abortion , obstetrics , regimen , pregnancy , chlamydia , family planning , gynecology , population , research methodology , genetics , immunology , biology , environmental health

From 2001 through March 2006, Planned Parenthood health centers throughout the United States provided medical abortion (abortion by means of medication) principally by a regimen of oral mifepristone followed 24 to 48 hours later by vaginal misoprostol. In response to concern about serious infections, in early 2006 Planned Parenthood changed the route of misoprostol administration from vaginal to buccal and required either routine provision of antibiotics or universal screening and treatment for chlamydia; in July 2007, Planned Parenthood began requiring routine treatment with antibiotics for all medical abortions.

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