Pregnancy is predictable: A large-scale prospective external validation of the prediction of spontaneous pregnancy in subfertile couples [1]

Human Reproduction

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2344-2345

  Smeenk, Jesper M J ^a   Braat, Didi D M ^a   Stolwijk, Annette M ^a   Kremer, Jan A M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARTHENOGENESIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 34547782273     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dem160     Document Type: Letter

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