Acceptability of manual versus electric aspiration for first trimester abortion: A randomized trial

Contraception

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 201-206

  Dean, G ^a   Cardenas, L ^a   Darney, P ^a   Goldberg, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Acceptability; Manual uterine aspiration; Manual vacuum aspiration; MVA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VACUUM ASPIRATION;

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

EID: 0037371259     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00485-7     Document Type: Article

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