Table 2.
Patient characteristics
| Parameter | March 2013–February 2015 N = 167 |
Colleselli et al. [14] N = 168 |
p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean ± SD | Median (min.–max.) | Mean ± SD | Median (min.–max.) | ||
| Age (years) | 33.2 ± 6.0 | 34 (18–47) | 32.7 ± 6.6 | 33 (16–45) | 0.474 |
| BMI | 23.6 ± 4.2 | 23.0 (15.5–37.8) | 22.7 ± 3.7 | 22 (12.8–37.0) | 0.085 |
| Gravidity | – | 2 (1–9) | – | 2 (1–7) | – |
| Parity | – | 1 (0–5) | – | 0 (0–5) | – |
| GA by LMP (weeks) | 10.0 ± 1.6 | 10 (6–15) | 10.1 ± 2.1 | 10 (5–18) | 0.756 |
| GA by ultrasound (weeks) | 7.8 ± 1.5 | 7 (5–12) | 8.1 ± 1.8 | 8 (5–13) | 0.343 |
| Time to surgery after misoprostol (days) | 26.1 ± 19.3 | 22.5 (0–57) | 5.3 ± 9.6 | 1 (0–42) | <0.001* |
| Expulsion time after administration of misoprostol (hours) | 4.7 ± 1.8 | 4.3 (1.5–12.5) | 8.4 ± 7.2 | 5.5 (1–34) | <0.001* |
* Statistically significant