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Eleven million U.S. women rely on tubal sterilization to prevent pregnancy.¹ Although the annual number of women undergoing sterilization (approximately 700,000) remains stable, the techniques, timing, and setting of the surgery have changed.² In the early 1970s, the usual sterilization procedure was partial salpingectomy with the use of laparotomy, and it was usually performed after delivery. Subsequently, nonpuerperal sterilization with a laparoscopic approach became as common as the postpartum open procedures, and now nearly all nonpuerperal, or interval, sterilizations are performed as outpatient procedures.³ Only postpartum procedures are still performed in the hospital.

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