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Surgical abortion procedures: mid‐level providers vs doctors: Complications (observational studies) Provider or supervisor assessment

It is very uncertain whether surgical abortion procedures: mid‐level providers changes complications (observational studies) Provider or supervisor… compared with doctors (very low certainty).

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Surgical abortion procedures: mid‐level providers vs doctors
Complications (observational studies) Provider or supervisor assessment · Patients requesting abortion procedures
It is very uncertain whether surgical abortion procedures: mid‐level providers changes complications (observational studies) Provider or supervisor… compared with doctors (very low certainty).
Doctors or mid‐level providers for abortion (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
RR 1.38 [0.7, 2.72]3 studies · 13715 participantsVery low

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Doctors or mid‐level providers for abortion
2015 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot assessed

Studies behind the findings

None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.

How reviews are matched to this question

Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.