Assisted reproductive technology: An overview of Cochrane Reviews

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Farquhar, Cindy ^a   Rishworth, Josephine R ^a   Brown, Julie ^b   Nelen, Willianne L D M ^c   Marjoribanks, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; INFUSION FLUID; METFORMIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOWN REGULATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIFESTYLE; LIVE BIRTH; LUTEAL PHASE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CYST; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; OVULATION DETECTION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SALPINGECTOMY; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; INFERTILITY; LIBRARY; LITERATURE; OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION SYNDROME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; LIVE BIRTH; OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84957409955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010537.pub4     Document Type: Review

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