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Abortion-Related Mortality in the United States: 1998-2010.
Article in Obstetrics and gynecology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03391986 (Auricular Acupuncture as Adjunct for Pain Management During First Trimester Uterine Aspiration.), which is not on this map. Cited by 54 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Auricular Acupuncture as Adjunct for Pain Management During First Trimester Uterine Aspiration.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cervical preparation for dilation and evacuation at 12 to 24 weeks gestation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Telemedicine for the provision of medication abortion to pregnant people at up to twelve weeks of pregnancy: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Reproductive health · 2024Pooled it
- Mifepristone Access Through Community Pharmacies When Regulated as a Routine Prescription Medication.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Induced second trimester abortion and its determinants in East Gojjam public hospitals.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Epidemiological trends in abortion and miscarriage between 1990 and 2019.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Understanding abortion legality and trimester of abortion care in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, three abortion-restrictive states.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2024Article
- First-trimester medication abortion via telemedicine: A retrospective cohort study.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Abortion Surveillance - United States, 2022.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2024Article
- Postabortion care service availability, readiness, and access in Burkina Faso: results from linked female-facility cross-sectional data.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Experiences with family planning and abortion services during the Covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative study in Bangladesh, Iran and Netherlands.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Close female friendships and knowledge of recommended abortion methods in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo among a representative sample of reproductive-aged women.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
- Analysing the context and characteristics of legal abortion and comprehensive post-abortion care among adolescents aged 10-14 in a network of sentinel centres in Latin America: a retrospective cross-sectional study, 2016-2020.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Article
- Abortion Surveillance - United States, 2021.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2023Article
- COVID-19 and abortion in the Ohio River Valley: A case study of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2023Article
- The Next Infodemic: Abortion Misinformation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Clinical interventions are more accurate than quantitative measurements for defining hemorrhage with dilation and evacuation.Contraception · 2023Article
- Abortion Surveillance - United States, 2020.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2022Article
- Post-abortion Complications: A Narrative Review for Emergency Clinicians.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2022Review
- Women's Health: Population Patterns and Social Determinants.Annual review of sociology · 2022Article
- Time from first clinical contact to abortion in Texas and California.Contraception · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine characteristics and causes of legal induced abortion-related deaths in the United States between 1998 and 2010.
methodsAbortion-related deaths were identified through the national Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System with enhanced case-finding. We calculated the abortion mortality rate by race, maternal age, and gestational age and the distribution of causes of death by gestational age and procedure.
resultsDuring the period from 1998-2010, of approximately 16.1 million abortion procedures, 108 women died, for a mortality rate of 0.7 deaths per 100,000 procedures overall, 0.4 deaths for non-Hispanic white women, 0.5 deaths for Hispanic women, and 1.1 deaths for black women. The mortality rate increased with gestational age, from 0.3 to 6.7 deaths for procedures performed at 8 weeks or less and at 18 weeks or greater, respectively. A majority of abortion-related deaths at 13 weeks of gestation or less were associated with anesthesia complications and infection, whereas a majority of abortion-related deaths at more than 13 weeks of gestation were associated with infection and hemorrhage. In 20 of the 108 cases, the abortion was performed as a result of a severe medical condition where continuation of the pregnancy threatened the woman's life.
conclusionDeaths associated with legal induced abortion continue to be rare events-less than 1 per 100,000 procedures. Primary prevention of unintended pregnancy, including those in women with serious pre-existing medical conditions, and increased access to abortion services at early gestational ages may help to further decrease abortion-related mortality in the United States. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: III.
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