Australia 2000

Trial name or title	Misoprostol for the medical management of miscarriage (randomised controlled trial).
Methods
Participants	Women with a spontaneous incomplete or missed abortion up to and including 12 weeks' gestation.
Interventions	Drugs and medications; surgery.
Outcomes	Primary outcome measures: (1) need for evacuation of retained products of conception in theatre within 1 month of the intervention; (2) infection requiring antibiotics; (3) change in haemoglobin from pre‐intervention to 72 hours and 4 weeks post‐intervention. Secondary outcomes: (1) side‐effects e.g. nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain; (2) analgesia required in hospital ‐ narcotics or oral; (3) antiemetics required in hospital; (4) duration of bleeding; (5) complication rates based on ethnic extraction.
Starting date	April 1999.
Contact information	Katharine Louey 7 Eagle 11 Bridge Rd Mackay Qld 4740 Australia Tel: + 61 7 49531817 e‐mail: klouey@mrbean.net.au
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