Effects of gestational age and the mode of surgical abortion on postabortion hemorrhage and fever: evidence from population-based reproductive health survey in Georgia

Table 2 Incidence of postabortion complications according to method of abortion and gestational age (N = 1974)

Postabortion complications	Method of abortion			Gestational age
Postabortion complications	D&C n = 652	Vacuum extract. n = 1322	P	<10 weeks n = 1687	≥10 weeks n = 287	P
Hemorrhage n (%)	27(4.1%)	16(1.2%)	<0.001	35(2.1%)	8(2.8%)	0.444
Fever n (%)	24(3.7%)	20(1.5%)	0.002	33(1.9%)	11(3.8%)	0.046

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