Rising multiple maternity rates and medical management of subfertility: Better information is needed

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-86

  Blondel, Béatrice ^a   MacFarlane, Alison ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technologies; Health monitoring systems; Ovarian stimulation; Triplets; Twins

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE; FOLIC ACID; MULTIVITAMIN;

CHILD HEALTH CARE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS MORTALITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL CARE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUBFERTILITY; TWIN PREGNANCY;

DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TRIPLETS; TWINS;

EID: 0037344169     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/13.1.83     Document Type: Review

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