Comparison of three single doses of mifepristone as emergency contraception: A randomised controlled trial

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 489-494

  Jin, Jie ^a   Weisberg, Edith ^a   Fraser, Ian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency contraception; Mifepristone; Randomised trial

Indexed keywords

MIFEPRISTONE; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST TENDERNESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COITUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPOTTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA BLEEDING; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; EMERGENCY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL, SYNTHETIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MIFEPRISTONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744966611     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2005.00483.x     Document Type: Article

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