Couples dropping out of a reimbursed intrauterine insemination program: What is their prognostic profile and why do they drop out?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1294-1298

  Custers, Inge M ^a   Van Dessel, Thierry H J H M ^b   Flierman, Paul A ^c   Steures, Pieternel ^a   Van Wely, Madelon ^a   Van Der Veen, Fulco ^a   Mol, Ben W J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^c ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dropout; intrauterine insemination; prognosis; Subfertility

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTHENOGENESIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; POSTCOITAL TEST; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SUBFERTILITY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HOMOLOGOUS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROGNOSIS; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875740562     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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