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.