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A lifetable analysis of sterilization failure: Data from the profamilia clinic, Bogota, Colombia
Author(s) -
Trias M.F.,
Anderson J.E.,
Ojeda G.,
Oberle M.W.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(87)90240-2
Subject(s) - medicine , sterilization (economics) , intensive care medicine , general surgery , currency , monetary economics , economics , foreign exchange market
Sterilization failure rates were computed using lifetable methods for sterilizations occurring between 1973 and 1982 in the Profamilia family planning clinic in Bogota, Colombia. Out of a total of nearly 45,000 sterilizations occurring during this period 503 sterilization failures were detected. Comparing methods, laparoscopy with the silastic band method had a significantly higher rate of failure, 1.5% after 5 years compared to 0.9% for laparoscopy with cautery and 0.6% for minilaparotomy.