120
Participants
Start Date
March 31, 2013
Primary Completion Date
January 31, 2014
Study Completion Date
February 28, 2014
Oral misoprostol
Patients were randomly allocated at the outpatient department into 4 groups with a ratio of 1:1:1:1: the oral, sublingual, vaginal, and no misoprostol group received all 400 μg of misoprostol (two tablets of Cytotec; 200 μg). All misoprostol tablets were identical and patients were blinded to group allocation
Sublingual misoprostol
Patients were randomly allocated at the outpatient department into 4 groups with a ratio of 1:1:1:1: the oral, sublingual, vaginal, and no misoprostol group received all 400 μg of misoprostol (two tablets of Cytotec; 200 μg). All misoprostol tablets were identical and patients were blinded to group allocation
Vaginal misoprostol
Patients were randomly allocated at the outpatient department into 4 groups with a ratio of 1:1:1:1: the oral, sublingual, vaginal, and no misoprostol group received all 400 μg of misoprostol (two tablets of Cytotec; 200 μg). All misoprostol tablets were identical and patients were blinded to group allocation
Control
The control group was not given any cervical priming agents or placebo.
CHA Gangnam Medical Center, Seoul
CHA University
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