What do women want? Women's experiences of infertility treatment

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 123-133

  Malin, Maili ^a,b   Hemminki, Elina ^a   Räikkönen, Outi ^a   Sihvo, Sinikka ^a   Perala M L ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Infertile women; Patient satisfaction; Treatment experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FINLAND; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 0034996918     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00317-8     Document Type: Article

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