Baby budgeting: Oocyte cryopreservation in women delaying reproduction can reduce cost per live birth

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1446-1453.e2

  Devine, Kate ^a   Mumford, Sunni L ^b   Goldman, Kara N ^c   Hodes Wertz, Brooke ^c   Druckenmiller, Sarah ^c   Propst, Anthony M ^d   Noyes, Nicole ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Epidemiology Branch Division of Intramural Population Health Research Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Texas Fertility Center   (United States)

Author keywords

ART; cost analysis; fertility preservation; Oocyte cryopreservation; vitrification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF REPRODUCTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DECISION TREE; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITRIFICATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BUDGET; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BUDGETS; COST SAVINGS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY PRESERVATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930930393     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.02.029     Document Type: Article

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