Fertility preservation for social indications: a cost-based decision analysis.

Abstract

Neither oocyte cryopreservation nor OTC appear to be cost-effective under current circumstances for otherwise healthy women planning delayed childbearing.

This analysis should give pause to the current practice of offering fertility preservation based only on the desire for delayed childbearing.

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Subjects

• Adult
• Aging
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Cryopreservation
• Decision Support Techniques
• Decision Trees
• Female
• Fertility
• Fertility Preservation
• Health Care Costs
• Humans
• Infertility, Female
• Live Birth
• Maternal Age
• Models, Economic
• Oocytes
• Ovary
• Pregnancy
• Pregnancy Rate
• Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
• Treatment Outcome

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Authors

• Jennifer Hirshfeld-Cytron
• William A Grobman
• Magdy P Milad

Publication date

2012-03-02

Journal

Journal topics

• Fertility
• Infertility

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Fertility and sterility

Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA. jhirshfeldcytron [at] gmail.com

Release reference

Fertil Steril. 2012 Mar;97(3):665-70

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