Personal characteristics |
Mean age (years) | 29.6 | 29.4 |
Medical characteristics |
Mean duration of pregnancy (weeks) | 8.6 | 10.4* |
Mean duration of complaints (hours) | 44.7 | 32.0** |
Blood loss† |
No blood loss (%) | 4 | 9** |
≤ own menses (%) | 77 | 70 |
> own menses (%) | 19 | 21 |
Pain (%) | 45 | 41 |
Probability diagnosis‡ |
Imminent miscarriage (%) | 78 | 83 |
Complete miscarriage (%) | 10 | 9 |
Incomplete miscarriage (%) | 6 | 13** |
Intact pregnancy (%) | 15 | 20 |
Portio erosion (%) | 2 | 13* |
Ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, premalignant disease (%) | 2 | 1 |
Contact characteristics |
Having had an ultrasound scan (%) | 9 | 32* |
Having been referred to obstetrician (%) | 9 | 11 |
Mean no. of physical examinations | 1.82 | 1.2* |
Follow up appointment (weeks) | 0.98 | 0.74* |