Table 3.

Reported adverse event rates following tubal ligation by minilaparotomy

Reference	AEs (n)	Sample (n)	AE rate
Chowdhury and Chowdhury, 1975 [31]	7	600	1.2%
Fongsri and McDaniel, 1979 [32]	4	900	0.4%
Dusitsin et al., 1980 [33]	5	292	1.7%
Koetsawang et al., 1981 [34]	37	1376	2.7%
Satyapan et al., 1983 [35]	82	3549	2.3%
Kanchanasinith et al., 1990 [36]	8	820	1.0%
Jack and Chao, 1992 [8]	482	5182	9.3%
Ruminjo and Ngugi, 1992 [6]	8	1521	0.5%
Ruminjo and Ngugi, 1993 [5]	30	1999	1.5%
Cisse et al., 1997 [4]	7	800	0.9%
Kidan et al., 2001 [9]	0	148	0.0%
Gordon-Maclean et al., 2014 [18]	11	518	2.1%
			AE rate (weighted average)	Lower limit	Upper limit
Total	681	17,705	3.85%	3.15%	4.54%
Total excluding Jack and Chao, 1992 [8]	199	12,523	1.59%	0.90%	2.28%

AE Adverse event