Comments: The total number of miscarriages have been rather stable with about
10,000 events per year. The real number is probablly twice this figure, as about
half of spontaneous abortions are never admitted to hospital and therefore not
recorded.
Missed abortion
Responsible for data preparation: Mette Schou Hammerum & Øjvind Lidegaard
1.2.1 Number of women
diagnosed with missed abortion and
spontaneous
abortion in Denmark 1998-2005.
Missed
abortion: N=36,641. Spontaneous ab: N=46,900
Comments: The
total number of miscarriages have been rather stable with about
10,000 events per year. The real number is probablly twice this figure, as about
half of spontaneous abortions are never admitted to hospital and therefore not
recorded.
1.2.2.
Surgical evacuation (%) of women with missed abortion
in Denmark 1998-2005. N=36,641. n=19,455
Comments: The
proportion of women with missed abortion who underwent surgical evacuation
has gradually declined during the eight-year study period. This is probably due
to both more
expectant managements, and through the recent years to medical treatment with
misoprostole.
1.2.3.
Number of women with missed abortion at different Gynaecological
departments in Denmark in 2004 (n=4,647) and 2005 (n=4,631)
Comments: The annual number of diagnoses with missed abortion
was rather constant during 2004
and 2005 at each department.
1.2.4.
Surgical evacuation (%) in women with missed abortion in 2005
at
different Gynaecological departments. Only departments with >10
diagnoses per year included.
Figures in columns indicate the absolute
number
of evacuations at each department.
Comments: The evacuation rate
differs more than 10 fold between departments. As no standard has been
set, these variations probably reflects differences in womens preference or in
different habits at different
departments. The large variation could also reflect that some women with
spontaneous abortion are wrongly
diagnosed with missed abortion.
1.2.5. Medical
treatment (%) of women with missed abortion in Denmark 2005.
The absolute number of women medically treated are indicated in columns.
Commets: The code for medical treatment (BKHD 50) was relatively recently
introduced in Denmark. In
departments with routine use of this code about one third of women with missed
abortion are medically treated.