Included | Excluded |
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Health service research examining how women access health providers and early abortion services, how much care costs, and what happens to women as a result of this care | Clinical studies examining safety and effectiveness of medications, devices, diagnostic products and treatment regimens intended for early abortion |
Research examining first trimester abortion service delivery processes, activities, strategies or components with the goal of improving provision, quality, utilization, coverage, efficiency, and equity | Research examining input aspects or resources of abortion care such as human resources, insurance schemes, drug supply or procurement, national policy or governance |
Studies that include women’s and provider’s experiences of an actual early abortion service or specific aspects of the delivery of the service or approaches involved | Studies exploring women’s preferences, reasons, opinions for or about services if they needed them. Papers concerning health professional’s general experiences of provision or interest in provision |
Primary research paper | Discursive or descriptive outlines of projects, conference abstracts |
High income country | Upper middle, middle, lower middle and low income country setting |
English | Non English |
>2005 | <2005 |