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Abortion care

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  • Reference number: NG140
  • Published:  25 September 2019
  • Last updated:  27 May 2025
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Evidence reviews

Evidence reviews 2019

The following documents contain the evidence that was used to develop the recommendations:

  • Accessibility and sustainability of abortion services
  • Information needs of women undergoing an abortion
  • Anti-D prophylaxis for women up to 13+6 weeks’ gestation (replaced with supporting document Q for the recommendations on anti-D prophylaxis)
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis for medical and surgical abortion
  • VTE prophylaxis for women having abortion
  • Abortion before ultrasound evidence
  • Expulsion at home for early medical abortion
  • Simultaneous versus delayed mifepristone + misoprostol administration for medical abortion up to 10+0 weeks’ gestation
  • Follow-up after medical abortion up to 10+0 weeks
  • Misoprostol after mifepristone for inducing medical abortion between 10+1 and 24+0 weeks’ gestation
  • Medical versus surgical abortion between 13+0 and 24+0 weeks’ gestation
  • Medical abortion after 24 weeks’ gestation
  • Cervical priming before surgical abortion
  • Anaesthesia or sedation for surgical abortion
  • Support after abortion
  • Contraception after abortion

Other supporting evidence

  • Methods
  • Health economics
  • Supporting document Q for the recommendations on anti-D prophylaxis

This page was last updated: 25 September 2019

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