Conditions: Abortion
Keywords: Length of time for procedure to be completed Need for additional dilation Subject satisfaction with procedure
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 50
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Women who are requesting pregnancy termination at 14-16 weeks, who would normally have osmotic dilator insertion the day before their procedure, would be asked if they wanted to participate. Participants would be randomized to two groups: first, dilator insertion as usual, or second, mifepristone taken the day before the procedure.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: women in the mifepristone are would take mifepristone 200 mg for cervical preparation the day before their procedure, and not have dilators inserted. In this group, the sstandard procedure of osmotic dilator insertion is NOT performed. arm 2: Women assigned to this arm would have the standard procedure for cervical preparation, which is insertion of osmotic dilators the day before the abortion procedure

Interventions: intervention 1: mifepristone 200 mg intervention 2: osmotic dilator insertion
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: mifepristone would be given the day before the procedure intervention 2: osmotic dilators (3-6) would be inserted as usual the day before the procedure

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