Similarities in women's perceptions and acceptability of manual vacuum aspiration and electric vacuum aspiration for first trimester abortion

Contraception

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-212

  Bird, Sheryl Thorburn ^a   Harvey, S Marie ^b   Beckman, Linda J ^c   Nichols, Mark D ^d   Rogers, Kathy ^e   Blumenthal, Paul D ^f  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Seneca Women's Health Care   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Acceptability; Electric vacuum aspiration; Manual vacuum aspiration

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; VACUUM ASPIRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CURETTAGE; INDUCED ABORTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; QUESTIONNAIRES; VACUUM CURETTAGE;

EID: 0037369693     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00484-5     Document Type: Article

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