TPAL (medicine)

TPAL is one of the methods to provide a quick overview of a female's obstetric history. Two other methods often used are gravida/para and '''GPA.

In TPAL, the T refers to term infants (after 37 weeks gestation), the P refers to premature births (20 to 37 weeks gestation), the A refers to abortions, and the L refers to living children. The TPAL is described by numbers separated by hyphens. For example, 5-0-1-4 would be equivalent to T5, P0, A1, L4. Note, the abortions number refers to the total number of both induced abortions and miscarriages.