| Table 2: Number of patients, in case series of 100 patients, with outcomes and side effects of medical abortion and preferences concerning type of abortion | |||||
| Abortion completed, no. of days of drug protocol elapsed | |||||
| Outcome, side effect or preference | 4-5 | 6-14 | 15-44 | Surgical aspiration* | Total |
| Outcome | 48 | 21 | 20 | 11 | 100 |
| Side effect
Nausea | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| Diarrhea | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Fever | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Duration of bleeding < 10 d | 16 | 8 | 7 | NA§ | 31 |
| > than 10 d | 19 | 7 | 6 | NA | 32 |
| No data | 13 | 6 | 7 | NA | 26 |
| Pain, score for worst pain#
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | NA | 2 |
| 17 | 16 | 11 | 7 | NA | 34 |
| 810 | 14 | 4 | 7 | NA | 25 |
| No data | 18 | 4 | 6 | NA | 28 |
| Preference
Prefer medical abortion |
41 | 15 | 15 | NA | 71 |
| Uncertain | 1 | 1 | 5 | NA | 7 |
| Prefer surgical abortion | 3 | 3 | 0 | NA | 6 |
| No data | 2 | 1 | 2 | NA | 5 |
| *Surgical aspiration was performed because of incomplete abortion.
§ NA = not applicable # Pain was scored on a scale of 0 (no pain) to 10 (pain as bad as it can be). | |||||