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What is the best strategy for presenting ART results? A controversial comment

J. P. P. Tyler, G L Driscoll

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Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 16(9), 463-467, 1999

DOI 10.1023/a:1020590614263 PMID 10530397

Abstract

Doctors love conventions. They have them in exotic places and they frequently use them to defend what would otherwise be inexplicable calculations. Thus 38 weeks of true gestation is, of course, 40 weeks of amenorrhoea, which may also be viewed as 38–40 weeks of pregnancy if timing is based on a “conventional” menstrual cycle. Even if this leaves the outside world to wonder, the clinicians understand. Many of the proponents of such ambiguity have moved away from obstetrics into reproductive medicine but have carried with …

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InfertilityResearch MethodologyEthics/Philosophy
ART outcome reporting, IVF results presentation, pregnancy rate per cycle, live birth rate reporting, cumulative pregnancy rate, assisted reproduction statistics, clinical pregnancy definition, embryo transfer success rates, reporting standards fertility treatment, outcome denominator ART
PMID 10530397 10530397 DOI 10.1023/a:1020590614263 10.1023/a:1020590614263

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Driscoll, G. L., & Tyler, J. P. (1999). What is the best strategy for presenting ART results? A controversial comment. *Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics*, *16*(9), 463-467. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1020590614263

Keywords

Benchmarking, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Embryo Transfer, Female, Fertilization in Vitro, Humans, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Outcome, Pregnancy Rate

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