Reducing multiple pregnancy from assisted reproduction treatment: Educating patients and medical staff

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 180-181

  Wang, Jim ^a   Lane, Michelle ^a   Norman, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; AUSTRALIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SAFETY; STAFF TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN PREGNANCY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 33644625576     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00181.x     Document Type: Review

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