What is the most relevant standard of success in assisted reproduction? The singleton, term gestation, live birth rate per cycle initiated: The BESST endpoint for assisted reproduction

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-7

  Min, Jason K ^a   Breheny, Sue A ^b   MacLachlan, Vivien ^b   Healy, David L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MONASH IVF   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Live birth rate per cycle; Singleton pregnancies; Success rates; Term gestation

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; DELIVERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS HEART; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NEWBORN MONITORING; OBSTETRIC CARE; OOCYTE; PEDIATRICIAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0346025742     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh028     Document Type: Article

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