PROVIDERS AND SERVICES | REGION | ||||||
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CANADA | ATLANTIC PROVINCES | QUEBEC | ONTARIO | PRAIRIES | BRITISH COLUMBIA | TERRITORIES | |
Procedures, n (%) | |||||||
• Total abortions provided in 2012 | 75 650 (100.0) | 3493 (100.0) | 24 106 (100.0) | 15 976 (100.0) | 16 639 (100.0) | 14 872 (100.0) | 564 (100.0) |
• 1st-trimester surgical abortion | 68 154 (90.1) | 3318 (95.0) | 22 319 (92.6) | 14 994 (93.9) | 15 389 (92.5) | 11 608 (78.1) | 526 (93.3) |
• 2nd-trimester surgical abortion | 4468 (5.9) | 164 (4.7) | 1541 (6.4) | 881 (5.5) | 936 (5.6) | 935 (6.3) | 11 (2.0) |
• 1st-trimester medical abortion | 2706 (3.6) | 0 (0.0) | 62 (0.3) | 101 (0.6) | 274 (1.6) | 2242 (15.1) | 27 (4.8) |
• 2nd-trimester medical abortion | 322 (0.4) | 11 (0.3) | 184 (0.8) | 0 (0.0) | 40 (0.2) | 87 (0.6) | 0 (0.0) |
Volume of procedures in facility, n (%) | |||||||
• Low (< 500 per y) | 39 (52.7) | 1 (25.0) | 27 (67.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (16.7) | 7 (50.0) | 3 (100.0) |
• Medium (500–1999 per y) | 20 (27.0) | 3 (75.0) | 10 (25.0) | 3 (42.9) | 2 (33.3) | 2 (14.3) | 0 (0.0) |
• High (≥ 2000 per y) | 15 (20.3) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (7.5) | 4 (57.1) | 3 (50.0) | 5 (35.7) | 0 (0.0) |
Providers*† | |||||||
• No. of SAPs‡ | 206 | 6 | 122 | 18 | 21 | 32 | 7 |
• No. of MAPs | 71 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 9 |
• No. of SAPs asked to complete survey | 138 | 6 | 86 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 6 |
• No. of MAPs asked to complete survey | 52 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 9 |
MAP—medical abortion provider, SAP—surgical abortion provider.
↵* In Canada, only physicians are licensed to provide abortion services. In some instances the same responding physician provided both medical and surgical abortion.
↵† These numbers represent responses by facility administrators and do not include provider numbers for 4 additional facilities where providers returned surveys but administrators did not, or for 6 facilities where the administrator reported no medical abortion physicians, yet 11 medical abortion physicians from those facilities returned responses.
↵‡ Surgical abortion providers in Quebec and British Columbia occasionally indicated provision at more than 1 reporting facility; thus, the overall totals for these regions might be overestimates.