IVF with preimplantation genetic screening, a promising new treatment with unexpectedly negative health outcomes: The Hippocratic role of Data Monitoring Committees

Human Reproduction

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Ankum, Willem M ^a   Reitsma, Johannes B ^a   Offringa, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data Monitoring Committee; IVF; Masked interim analysis; Preimplantation genetic screening; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY RATE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BIRTH RATE; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL TRIALS DATA MONITORING COMMITTEES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 40549085014     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dem378     Document Type: Article

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