Early medical abortion in Cairns, Queensland: July 2006 - April 2007

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 171-173

  de Costa, Caroline M ^a,b   Russell, Darren B ^b   de Costa, Naomi R ^c   Carrette, Michael ^a   McNamee, Heather M ^a  

^a CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; METHOTREXATE; MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST SURGERY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HYPERTENSION; INDUCED ABORTION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LAW; LICENCE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRESCRIPTION; RECURRENT INFECTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34548180341     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01179.x     Document Type: Article

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