Which treatment option for couples with unexplained or mild male subfertility? Intrauterine insemination looks like the best first choice

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Romundstad, L B ^a,b   Opdahl, S ^a   Pinborg, A ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Spiren Fertilitetsklinikk IVF Unit   (Norway)

^c Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED OVARIAN STIMULATION; EDITORIAL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MILD MALE SUBFERTILITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REIMBURSEMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SUBFERTILITY; TWIN PREGNANCY; UNEXPLAINED MALE SUBFERTILITY; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER;

EID: 84921416433     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g7843     Document Type: Editorial

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