Assisted reproductive technologies and birth outcomes: Overview of recent systematic reviews

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-333

  Bower, Carol ^a,b   Hansen, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Western Australian Birth Defects Registry   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; BIRTH DEFECT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS OUTCOME; FOLLOW UP; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL MORTALITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES; BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PREMATURE BIRTH; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 15844386816     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD04095     Document Type: Review

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