Authors’ reply to Bourne and colleagues

In response to Bourne and colleagues’ comments1:

• 1 The guideline development group (GDG) recommended that women with a pregnancy of uncertain gestation, in pain, or at greater than six weeks’ gestation be referred to an early pregnancy service. We felt that immediately referring all women with bleeding but no pain at less than six weeks’ gestation would result in unnecessary and uninformative scans, but agreed that women with continuing or worsening symptoms should be referred to exclude ectopic pregnancy. The recommendation that most women see another clinician before …