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This is a protocol to care for patients who have had an ultrasound without visualization of an intrauterine pregnancy and who have an indeterminate last menstrual period. For further guidance, read our Protocol for Ectopic Pregnancy Treatment.
This resource shares common questions and concerns clinicians may hear about self-managed abortion (SMA) and how you can answer patient questions and share important information. Some highlights include: “How do I know the pills are real?”, “What’s the best way to use the pills?”, and “Can anyone tell that I used these pills?”
This comprehensive reference, published by the World Health Organization, is a useful resource for clinicians in various settings to provide safe abortion care and to treat complications. Link: http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/unsafe_abortion/clinical-practice-safe-abortion/en/
An IPAS training manual for clinical mentors and others providing clinical and programmatic support to health-care providers offering abortion-related care. Includes content, activities and materials to improve knowledge, attitudes and skills for clinical mentoring and provider support.
This course from Innovating Education, Structures & Self: Advancing Equity and Justice in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, is a learner-led, justice-informed curriculum designed to teach clinical learners to consider how systems of power and legacies of structural oppression impact their care for patients.
This publication details an exploratory study of US primary care clinicians’ perspectives on the effects of mifepristone restrictions, including US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, on access to medication abortion and early pregnancy loss (EPL) management in primary care. Protocols including mifepristone are the most effective medication regimens for medication abortion and EPL management.…
For patients whose pregnancy was not seen on ultrasound, use this patient handout to help explain the next steps. You can also share our Ectopic Pregnancy Fact Sheet for more information on symptoms, tests, and treatment for ectopic pregnancy.
A step-by-step guide on initiating medication abortion services within your primary care practice.
The Well Project is committed to building agency and health literacy among women living with HIV by developing and providing access to culturally responsive, scientifically accurate, women-focused HIV information. Their library hosts nearly 200 educational fact sheets in English, Spanish, and Hindi, slide sets, and recordings of webinars on important topics related to HIV. Link:…
This publication describes the provision of early pregnancy loss (EPL) management and factors that inhibit or enable providing this care among family physicians trained in early abortion during residency. EPL is a common experience. Treatment options include expectant management, medication, and uterine aspiration. Although family physicians can offer comprehensive EPL treatment in their office-based settings,…