Misoprostol for second and third trimester termination of pregnancy: A review of practice at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-29

  Dodd, Jodie ^a,c   O'Brien, Lauri ^b   Coffey, Judy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Department of Obstetrics/Gynaecology ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Fetal anomaly; Intrauterine fetal death; Misoprostol; Prospective cohort study; Termination of pregnancy

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL;

AUSTRALIA; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MALFORMATION; FLUSHING; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INFORMED CONSENT; LABOR INDUCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFE; NAUSEA; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SIDE EFFECT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ABNORMALITIES; ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, EUGENIC; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MISOPROSTOL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 15844383099     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2005.00338.x     Document Type: Review

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