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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Apr;131(4):635–641. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000002536

Table 4.

Clinically significant adverse events* associated with early medical abortion with simultaneous or interval administration of mifepristone and misoprostol from 1 May 2015 to 30 April 2016 at British Pregnancy Advisory Service (N=28,901)

Clinically Significant Adverse Event Simultaneous (n=24,543) Interval (n=4,358) p-value
% [95% CI]
(n)
% [95% CI]
(n)
Any 0.20 [0.15–0.26]
(49)
0.18 [0.08–0.36]
(8)
0.972
IV antibiotics 0.000 [0.00–0.02]
(1)
0.02 [0.00–0.13]
(1)
0.695
Blood transfusion 0.03 [0.01–0.06]
(8)
0.09 [0.03–0.23]
(4)
0.173
Hospital admission 0.20 [0.14–0.26]
(48)
0.16 [0.06–0.33]
(7)
0.765
*

An individual woman may experience more than one significant adverse event. Each woman is counted only once in the ‘Any’ category, which represents a combined variable for each of the three categories: IV antibiotics, blood transfusion, and hospital admission.