Experience with a patient-friendly, mandatory, single-blastocyst transfer policy: The power of one

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 580-584

  Csokmay, John M ^a,b   Hill, Micah J ^a,b   Chason, Rebecca J ^a,b   Hennessy, Sasha ^c   James, Aidita N ^c   Cohen, Jacques ^d   Decherney, Alan H ^b   Segars, James H ^a,b   Payson, Mark D ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c ART Inst of Washington Inc   (United States)

^d Reprogenetics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

ART; blastocyst; clinical pregnancy; implantation; infertility; IVF; mandatory; multiple gestation; single

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLASTOCYST TRANSFER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER;

EID: 80052272961     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.06.043     Document Type: Article

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