Shelton J D, Schoenbucher A K
Public Health Rep. 1978 Jul-Aug;93(4):375-8.
The sources for determination of abortion-related deaths in Georgia are the cause of death listed on the death certificate and reports from informal reporting channels. Although Georgia residents 10-44 years of age obtained 19,877 induced abortions in 1975, no deaths related to abortion were found through these two usual sources. To determine the sensitivity of this system, all abortion certificates for 1975 were compared with all death certificates of Georgia females aged 10-44 who died in 1975 and the first 2 months of 1976. Based on the age and racial distribution of the women who received abortions, approximately 13 deaths (from all causes) would be expected to have subsequently occurred during the period of time studied. The authors found only 10. From national death-to-case rates for legal abortion, the expected number actually atrributable to abortion was 0.78 death. Of the 10 deaths, 2 were potentially related to the previous abortion, but a causal relationship to the preceding abortion was not clearly evident for any of the 10 deaths. The data, therefore, tend to support the assertion that no large numbers of deaths related to abortion are undiscovered and that current measurements of abortion mortality are accurate.
佐治亚州确定与堕胎相关死亡的来源是死亡证明上列出的死因以及来自非正式报告渠道的报告。尽管1975年佐治亚州10至44岁的居民进行了19,877例人工流产，但通过这两种常规来源未发现与堕胎相关的死亡病例。为了确定该系统的敏感性，将1975年所有堕胎证明与1975年及1976年头两个月死亡的佐治亚州10至44岁女性的所有死亡证明进行了比较。根据接受堕胎手术女性的年龄和种族分布，预计在研究期间随后会发生约13例（各种原因导致的）死亡。作者仅发现了10例。根据合法堕胎的全国死亡与病例比率，实际可归因于堕胎的预期死亡人数为0.78例。在这10例死亡中，有2例可能与先前的堕胎有关，但这10例死亡中的任何一例与先前堕胎的因果关系都不明显。因此，这些数据倾向于支持这样一种说法，即没有大量与堕胎相关的死亡未被发现，并且目前对堕胎死亡率的衡量是准确的。
