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Addressing Structural Inequities, a Necessary Step Toward Ensuring Equitable Access to Telehealth for Medication Abortion Care During and Post COVID-19

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2022
Telehealth, one of the newest health innovations, has been promoted as a tool to enhance access to health care services in ways that center patient needs. However, integrating telehealth within an inequitable health system undermines its potential.
Terri-Ann Thompson, Dana Northcraft, Fabiola Carrión   +2 more
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Effectiveness of self-managed medication abortion with accompaniment support in Argentina and Nigeria (SAFE): a prospective, observational cohort study and non-inferiority analysis with historical controls

The Lancet Global Health, 2022
Summary: Background: Clinical trials have established the high effectiveness and safety of medication abortion in clinical settings. However, barriers to clinical abortion care have shifted most medication abortion use to out-of-clinic settings ...
Heidi Moseson, PhD, Ruvani Jayaweera, PhD, Ijeoma Egwuatu, BS, Belén Grosso, BA, Ika Ayu Kristianingrum, MA, Sybil Nmezi, MA, Ruth Zurbriggen, MEd, Relebohile Motana, PDM, Chiara Bercu, MPA, Sofía Carbone, MPH, Caitlin Gerdts, PhD   +10 more
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Medical abortion. [PDF]

BMJ, 1992
K J, Thong, D T, Baird
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Differential treatment in the provision of medication abortion at pharmacies in Uttar Pradesh, IndiaAJOG Global Reports at a Glance

AJOG Global Reports, 2021
BACKGROUND: Almost 3 quarters of India's roughly 16 million annual abortions are done through medication abortion purchased from pharmacists outside of healthcare facilities. The quality of information provided by pharmacists about medication abortion is
Joanna Percher, MPH, Malvika Saxena, MPH, Aradhana Srivastava, PhD, Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD   +3 more
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Medical Abortion-An Alternative to Surgical Abortion [PDF]

Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2006
Termination of early pregnancy has traditionally been done surgically, but agents are now available which can terminate pregnancy if taken orally, vaginally or parenterally. We have used a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol for termination of early pregnancy.Fifty patients having amenorrhoea of upto 56 days with confirmed intrauterine ...
K, Kapur, G S, Joneja, M, Biswas
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Medication abortion via digital health in the United States: a systematic scoping review [PDF]

npj Digit. Medicine, 2023
Digital health, including telemedicine, has increased access to abortion care. The convenience, flexibility of appointment times, and ensured privacy to abortion users may make abortion services via telemedicine preferable.
F. Kumsa, R. Prasad, A. Shaban-Nejad
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Development and validation of a person-centered abortion scale: the experiences of care in private facilities in Kenya

BMC Women's Health, 2020
Background There is a need for a standardized way to measure person-centered care for abortion. This study developed and validated a measure of person-centered abortion care.
May Sudhinaraset, Amanda Landrian, Patience A. Afulani, Beth Phillips, Nadia Diamond-Smith, Sun Cotter   +5 more
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The costs and cost effectiveness of providing first-trimester, medical and surgical safe abortion services in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2017
BackgroundDespite a liberal abortion law, access to safe abortion services in South Africa is challenging for many women. Medication abortion was introduced in 2013, but its reach remains limited.
Naomi Lince-Deroche, Tamara Fetters, Edina Sinanovic, Jaymala Devjee, Jack Moodley, Kelly Blanchard   +5 more
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Glancing at the past and course-setting for the future: lessons from the last decade of research on medication abortion in high-income countries

Reproductive Health, 2021
Objective Although medication abortion has become more common in high-income countries, the procedure has not yet met early expectations for widening access to abortion. High-quality evidence can serve as a catalyst for changes in policy and practice. To
Annik M. Sorhaindo
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A more accurate approach to define abortion cohorts using linked administrative data: an application to Ontario, Canada

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Background The shifting landscape of abortion care from a hospital-only to a distributed service including primary care has implications for how to identify abortion cohorts for research and surveillance.
Laura Schummers, Kimberlyn McGrail, Elizabeth K Darling, Sheila Dunn, Anastasia Gayowsky, Janusz Kaczorowski, Wendy V. Norman   +6 more
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