Cost-effectiveness of the freeze-all policy

Jornal Brasileiro de Reproducao Assistida

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 125-130

  Roque, Matheus ^a   Valle, Marcello ^a   Guimarães, Fernando ^a   Sampaio, Marcos ^b   Geber, Selmo ^b  

^a ORIGEN Center for Reproductive Medicine   (Brazil)

^b ORIGEN Center for Reproductive Medicine   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Delayed frozen thawed embryo transfer; Freeze all

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FREEZING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84940492585     PISSN: 15175693     EISSN: 15180557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5935/1518-0557.20150028     Document Type: Article

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