Measurements 
Outcomes included: numbers and rates of women who self-managed medical abortion, their age, socioeconomic situation, country of living, knowledge on medical abortion, rate of reported ongoing pregnancy, surgical intervention, complete abortion, blood transfusion, if they found it acceptable to receive telemedical abortion service method, if the abortion pill was the appropriate method and if they would recommend the service to a friend(11, 12). Ongoing pregnancy is defined as the failure of medical abortion(19). The Medical Abortion Reporting Efficacy (MARE) guidelines recommend defining a medical abortion to be successful when there is a “successful expulsion of the intrauterine pregnancy without the need for surgical intervention”, i.e. a complete abortion(19). Lastly, a blood transfusion is an adverse event which is often measured as an indication of safety (17).
Countries were initially divided into UN geographic regions and sub-regions (20). As the frequencies of evaluations and representation of countries showed to be extremely varied, it was concluded to be a misleading classification. Thus, only the top 10 most frequent countries were included for an overview, as they accounted for 84,3% of the total sample, and 84,9% after inclusion criteria.