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Register: SLCTR
Last refreshed on: 27 April 2013
Main ID:  SLCTR/2008/012
Date of registration: 20/06/2008
Primary sponsor: National Science Foundation
Public title: Effectiveness of surgery versus doing nothing in incomplete abortion
Scientific title: Efficacy of surgical versus expectant management in incomplete miscarriage
Date of first enrolment: 1/1/2008
Target sample size: 140
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://www.slctr.lk/trial_details.asp?reg_id={E45C75BE-D7B6-4000-BAC5-A4CA207F5F94}
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised clinical trial  
Countries of recruitment
Sri Lanka
Contacts
Name: Dr Sanjeewa Padumadasa 
Address:  Faculty of Medicine, Ragama
Telephone: 0777 388 053
Email: sanjeewapadumadasa@yahoo.com
Affiliation:  Probationary Lecturer
Name: Dr Sanjeewa Padumadasa 
Address:  Faculty of Medicine, Ragama, Sri Lanka
Telephone: 0777 388 053
Email: sanjeewapadumadasa@yahoo.com
Affiliation:  Probationary Lecturer
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Women with an incomplete miscarriage with retained products less than 50mm AP diameter
Exclusion criteria: Women with a strong preference for either intervention, women with profuse bleeding, severe pain or fever necessitating immediate surgical intervention will be exclude from the study

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Incomplete miscarriage
Intervention(s)
Randomise the study population into a surgical group where they will undergo evacuation of retained products of conception or an expectant group where they will be followed up weekly for six weeks clinically and using ultrasound of pelvis
Primary Outcome(s)
Compare the efficacy of surgical versus expectant management in incomplete miscarriage
Secondary Outcome(s)
•To assess the rate of complications with thetwo treatment modalities
•To evaluate patient acceptance of the two methods
•To perform a cost analysis of the two methods
Secondary ID(s)
RG/2007/HS/07
Source(s) of Monetary Support
National Science Foundation
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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