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Key messages

When a patient presents to an emergency department or urgent care centre, they should be given the best available information.

This updated fact sheet helps ensure clinicians and patients have access to easy-to-read information about different emergency conditions.

Give this fact sheet to your patients when discharging them from an emergency department or urgent care centre.

Please note that this guidance is currently undergoing review by Safer Care Victoria to ensure  the content is up to date. In the meantime, we recommend that you also refer to more contemporaneous evidence where possible.

Download our fact sheet to provide your patients with easy to follow guidance on miscarriage.

This fact sheet has the #withconsumers tick from the Consumers Health Forum of Australia

A miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy before the unborn baby (fetus) can survive outside the uterus (womb).

About one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage and the rate increases with a woman’s age.

Most miscarriages (75–80 out of every 100) happen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

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Clinical Guidance Team
Safer Care Victoria

Version history

First published: June 2019
Due for review: June 2022

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