Time costs of fertility care: The hidden hardship of building a family

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2025-2030

  Wu, Alex K ^a   Elliott, Peter ^a   Katz, Patricia P ^b   Smith, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

burden; Fertility; infertility; time cost

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY; COST; FAMILY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY CARE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TELECONSULTATION; TIME;

ABSENTEEISM; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COST OF ILLNESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OFFICE VISITS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84878511083     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.01.145     Document Type: Article

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