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Second trimester safe abortion procedures outcomes in Ethiopia, 2023
| Outcome | Category |
D&E |
Medication abortion |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | |||
| Complications | Overall | 6 | 9.5 | 5 | 3.1 | 0.044 |
| Incomplete abortion | 3 | 4.8 | 3 | 1.9 | ||
| Infection | 1 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hemorrhage | 1 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cervical laceration | 1 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Failed abortion method | 0 | 1 | 1.2 | |||
| Method effectiveness | Overall | 60 | 95.2 | 157 | 96.9 | 0.542 |
D&E, dilation and evacuation.
