Treating incomplete abortion in El Salvador: Cost savings with manual vacuum aspiration

Contraception

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 345-351

  Koontz, Stephanie L ^a   Molina De Perez, Olga ^b   Leon, Kathleen ^c   Foster Rosales, Anne ^d  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b San Juan de Dios Hospital   (El Salvador)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraceptive acceptance; Cost analysis; Incomplete abortion; Manual vacuum aspiration; Sharp curettage

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; CURETTAGE; EL SALVADOR; FAMILY COUNSELING; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VACUUM ASPIRATION;

EID: 0242488895     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-7824(03)00162-8     Document Type: Article

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