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Table 3 Reported adverse event rates following tubal ligation by minilaparotomy

From: Safety of tubal ligation by minilaparotomy provided by clinical officers versus assistant medical officers: study protocol for a noninferiority randomized controlled trial in Tanzanian women

Reference

AEs (n)

Sample (n)

AE rate

  

Chowdhury and Chowdhury, 1975 [31]

7

600

1.2%

Fongsri and McDaniel, 1979 [32]

4

900

0.4%

Dusitsin et al., 1980 [33]

5

292

1.7%

Koetsawang et al., 1981 [34]

37

1376

2.7%

Satyapan et al., 1983 [35]

82

3549

2.3%

Kanchanasinith et al., 1990 [36]

8

820

1.0%

Jack and Chao, 1992 [8]

482

5182

9.3%

Ruminjo and Ngugi, 1992 [6]

8

1521

0.5%

Ruminjo and Ngugi, 1993 [5]

30

1999

1.5%

Cisse et al., 1997 [4]

7

800

0.9%

Kidan et al., 2001 [9]

0

148

0.0%

Gordon-Maclean et al., 2014 [18]

11

518

2.1%

   

AE rate (weighted average)

Lower limit

Upper limit

Total

681

17,705

3.85%

3.15%

4.54%

Total excluding Jack and Chao, 1992 [8]

199

12,523

1.59%

0.90%

2.28%

  1. AE Adverse event