Clinical practice handbook for quality abortion care

Book excerpt: The Clinical practice handbook for quality abortion care is intended to facilitate the practical application of the clinical recommendations from the Abortion care guideline (World Health Organization [WHO] 2022). While legal, regulatory, policy and service-delivery contexts may vary from country to country, the recommendations and best practices described in both of these documents aim to enable evidence-based decision-making with respect to quality abortion care. This handbook is oriented to health workers who already have the requisite skills and training necessary to provide safe abortion and/or treat complications of unsafe abortion. It is neither a substitute for formal training, nor a training manual. We hope this handbook will be useful to a range of health workers in different settings and in varying legal and health service contexts.