Calculating cumulative live-birth rates from linked cycles of assisted reproductive technology (ART): Data from the Massachusetts SART CORS

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1334-1340

  Stern, Judy E ^a   Brown, Morton B ^b   Luke, Barbara ^c   Wantman, Ethan ^d   Lederman, Avi ^d   Missmer, Stacey A ^e   Hornstein, Mark D ^e  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Redshift Technologies Inc   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technology; Cumulative live birth rate; live birth rate per cycle; SART CORS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DELIVERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OVARY CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; ALGORITHM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY RATE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIVE BIRTH; MASSACHUSETTS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956188439     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.05.052     Document Type: Article

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