| Can at-home semi-quantitative pregnancy tests serve as a replacement for clinical follow-up of medical abortion? A US study. | |
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PMID: 22895097 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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BACKGROUND: Medical abortion in the United States requires clinic-based follow-up, representing additional time and cost to women and clinics. We studied a semi-quantitative home pregnancy test as a possible replacement for in-person follow-up. STUDY DESIGN: Four hundred and ninety women participated in the clinical study and used a pregnancy test to determine baseline human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on the day of mifepristone administration and follow-up hCG 1 week later. One hundred and eighty-nine other women completed a user comprehension survey. Accuracy, feasibility and acceptability of the test were assessed in both the clinical study and the survey. RESULTS: The test identified the one ongoing pregnancy in the clinical study cohort. Sensitivity and specificity were calculated at 100.0% and 97.0%. The majority of participants in both the clinical study and the user comprehension survey found the test to be "very easy" or "easy" to use. CONCLUSION: At-home follow-up with a semi-quantitative pregnancy test is feasible for service delivery in the United States. |
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Jennifer Blum; Tara Shochet; Kelsey Lynd; E Steve Lichtenberg; Dick Fischer; Michelle Arnesen; Beverly Winikoff; Paul D Blumenthal |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-8-13 |
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Title: Contraception Volume: - ISSN: 1879-0518 ISO Abbreviation: Contraception Publication Date: 2012 Aug |
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Created Date: 2012-8-16 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0234361 Medline TA: Contraception Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Gynuity Health Projects, New York, NY 10010, USA. |
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