NCT01487213

Routine Follow-up Versus Self-assessment in Medical Abortion

Routine Follow-up Versus Self-assessment of Complete Abortion Following Medical Abortion, Effect on Its Success and Acceptability: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 929 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main objective of the study is to optimize the routines for follow-up after medical abortion in order to give women more autonomy by reducing the number of consultations involved and to reduce the frequency of postabortal curettage. This will be achieved by providing means for women for postabortal self-assessment with the use of a quantitative urinary hCG test.

Conditions

• Medical Abortion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Home self assessment of complete medical abortion	Self assessment of complete abortion using a home semiquantitative U-hCG test. Follow-up out patient review two-three weeks later by qualified practitioner to evaluate success of procedure using the clinic's standard routine. The patient charts will be reviewed after three months in order to control for possible extra visits related to abortion-related complications.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-07-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2011-12-07
• Last updated: 2013-08-07

Locations

4 sites across 4 countries: Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden