Participants |
multicentre trial, 10 centres: Chandigarh, Edinburgh, Havana, Hong Kong, Ljubljana, Shanghai, Stockholm, Szeged, Tbilisi, Tianjin
896 women, at 57 to 63 days of gestation with regular menstrual cycles, pregnancy confirmed clinically or by ultrasound
exclusion criteria: contraindication to the study drugs, chronic respiratory, digestive, endocrine, genito‐urinary, neurological or cardio‐vascular disease, severe liver disease, history of thrombo‐embolism, IUCD in situ, breastfeeding |
Outcomes |
complete, incomplete, missed abortion, time to onset of bleeding, duration of bleeding, time to return to menses, bleeding before gemeprost, time of expulsion |