Is there any difference in pregnancy and implantation rates when nurses perform embryo transfer in an IVF-ET program?

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-5

  Cheung, Wai Man ^a   Ng, Ernest Hung Yu ^a   Lau, Estella Yee Lan ^a   Yeung, William Shu Biu ^a   So, William Wai Ki ^a   Ho, Pak Chung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Embryo transfer; In vitro fertilization; Nurses; Results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; OVARY; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MENOTROPINS; NURSES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 0042424649     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072322     Document Type: Article

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