Population trends and live birth rates associated with common ART treatment strategies

Human Reproduction

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2632-2641

  Chambers, Georgina M ^a   Wand, Handan ^b   Macaldowie, Alan ^a   Chapman, Michael G ^c   Farquhar, Cynthia M ^d   Bowman, Mark ^e,f   Molloy, David ^g   Ledger, William ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c IVF Australia   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e Genea   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g Queensland Fertility Group   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; embryo transfer; epidemiology; ICSI IVF ICSI outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; TREND STUDY; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TRENDS;

AUSTRALIA; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84996602637     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dew232     Document Type: Article

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