The Clinical Protocol “First-Trimester Medical Abortion” is written in accordance with the Russian laws on health protection, Procedure on medical care provision to women seeking for artificial termination of pregnancy, Law on drug circulation. The evidential base for the clinical protocol was constituted by the publications included in the Cochrane Library, PUBMED and MEDLINE databases, by the results of the Russian clinical studies on the medical abortion carried out with the permission of the Ethical Committee of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, by the Russian and international regulatory documents on safe abortion (FDA, HAS). The objective of these clinical protocol is to improve the quality of medical aid in the Russian Federation provided during early pregnancy termination. The comments were discussed jointly by the work group members; a consensus was reached on the key questions of the clinical protocol and practical recommendations were developed.
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