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One hospital continued recruitment between January and June 2015. A standardized information sheet incorporating patient demographics, medical history and symptoms was completed by patients and confirmed by examining clinicians. The outcome measure was final pregnancy location.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>There were 1320 eligible patients included in the analysis, with a total of 72 EPs<\/jats:styled-content> (rate of 6%). Pelvic pain and diarrhea > three times in the previous 24 h were independent symptoms that increased the risk of EP<\/jats:styled-content>, with relative risks of 2.4 (95% CI<\/jats:styled-content>, 1.4\u20134.0; P<\/jats:italic> = 0.002) and 2.2 (95% CI<\/jats:styled-content>, 1.08\u20134.5; P<\/jats:italic> = 0.03), respectively. The only other independent marker of risk of EP<\/jats:styled-content> was duration of vaginal bleeding; the risk of EP<\/jats:styled-content> increased by 20% (95% CI<\/jats:styled-content>, 14%\u201327%) for every 1\u2010day increment in duration (P<\/jats:italic> < 0.001). A logistic regression model incorporating these factors demonstrated an area under the receiver\u2013operating characteristics curve of 0.73 (95% CI<\/jats:styled-content>, 0.67\u20130.79). The prevalence of EP<\/jats:styled-content> was low when there was no pelvic pain, no diarrhea and the duration of bleeding was \u2264 3 days, with an EP<\/jats:styled-content> rate of 2% (6\/391). In the presence of a single risk factor, the EP rate increased to 5% (29\/631) when only pelvic pain was present, 8% (1\/12) when only diarrhea > three times in the previous 24 h was reported and 9% (9\/103) when there was only vaginal bleeding with a duration > 3 days. Women with pelvic pain and vaginal bleeding of any severity for > 3 days had a high EP<\/jats:styled-content> rate of 16% (23\/146). In the nine women who also reported diarrhea > three times in the previous 24 h, two had EP<\/jats:styled-content>.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions<\/jats:title>Only the presence of pelvic pain, diarrhea > three times in the previous 24 h and duration of bleeding were symptoms that significantly increased the risk for EP<\/jats:styled-content> in women attending early pregnancy assessment units. Risk factors and symptoms alone could not be used to predict reliably an EP<\/jats:styled-content>. Copyright \u00a9 2016 ISUOG. 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