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  • Public Health
  • Healthcare Provider Training

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  • The World Health Organization advocates for abortion provision at the primary healthcare level.
  • Training mid-level providers (MLPs) is a strategy to improve access to safe abortion procedures.
  • This review assesses MLP safety and effectiveness in abortion care compared to physicians.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the safety and effectiveness of abortion procedures performed by mid-level providers versus doctors.
  • To evaluate outcomes for both medical and surgical first-trimester abortions.

Main Methods:

  • Searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, and POPLINE databases for comparative studies (1980-2014).
  • Included randomized controlled trials (RCTs), prospective cohort, and observational studies.
  • Meta-analysis of primary outcomes using fixed-effect and random-effects models.

Main Results:

  • Eight studies (22,018 participants) met inclusion criteria.
  • No significant difference in complications for surgical abortions by MLPs vs. doctors (RCTs & observational).
  • High-quality evidence shows no difference in medical abortion failure rates; very low evidence suggests higher surgical abortion failure with MLPs.

Conclusions:

  • Medical abortions performed by MLPs are as safe and effective as those by doctors.
  • Further high-quality research is needed to confirm surgical abortion failure rates with MLPs.
  • No significant difference in complication risks for first-trimester surgical abortions between provider types.