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The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world
RESEARCH QUESTION: What is the impact of the response to COVID-19 on the management of fertility treatments and clinical practice around the world? DESIGN: Fertility clinic associates around the world were approached. They completed an online survey containing 33 questions focused on the country...
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Reproductive Healthcare Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8712431/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35190253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.12.016 |
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author | Cutting, Elizabeth Catt, Sally Vollenhoven, Beverley Mol, Ben W. Horta, Fabrizzio |
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description | RESEARCH QUESTION: What is the impact of the response to COVID-19 on the management of fertility treatments and clinical practice around the world? DESIGN: Fertility clinic associates around the world were approached. They completed an online survey containing 33 questions focused on the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Known fertility clinic associates that were contacted comprised scientific directors, medical directors and laboratory managers. RESULTS: There were 43 individual country responses from Asia (13), Africa (3), Europe (17), North America (3), Oceania (2) and South America (5). In nine countries, clinics followed their government body recommendations, in 22 countries there was a combination of recommendations, in 3 countries changes were made by clinic initiative, and 9 countries did not specify. In 34 countries IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and frozen embryo transfer (FET) treatments had an average delay of 56 days (IVF/ICSI) (minimum 0, maximum 160) and 57 days (FET) (minimum 0, maximum 166 days). During the shutdown, the number of freeze-all cycles increased in 22 countries. Only 23 countries reported patients having to undergo a SARS-CoV-2 test, and 20 countries did not report any COVID-19 testing in their clinic. Additional support counselling was offered in 28 countries, partner restrictions at clinics were reported in 41 countries and time between patients’ appointments was increased in 39 countries. CONCLUSIONS: The implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures proved the need for government societies to introduce a set protocol that includes requirements such as increased patient counselling and additional guidelines for prioritizing couples who need care most urgently. |
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spelling | pubmed-87124312021-12-28 The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world Cutting, Elizabeth Catt, Sally Vollenhoven, Beverley Mol, Ben W. Horta, Fabrizzio Reprod Biomed Online Article RESEARCH QUESTION: What is the impact of the response to COVID-19 on the management of fertility treatments and clinical practice around the world? DESIGN: Fertility clinic associates around the world were approached. They completed an online survey containing 33 questions focused on the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Known fertility clinic associates that were contacted comprised scientific directors, medical directors and laboratory managers. RESULTS: There were 43 individual country responses from Asia (13), Africa (3), Europe (17), North America (3), Oceania (2) and South America (5). In nine countries, clinics followed their government body recommendations, in 22 countries there was a combination of recommendations, in 3 countries changes were made by clinic initiative, and 9 countries did not specify. In 34 countries IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and frozen embryo transfer (FET) treatments had an average delay of 56 days (IVF/ICSI) (minimum 0, maximum 160) and 57 days (FET) (minimum 0, maximum 166 days). During the shutdown, the number of freeze-all cycles increased in 22 countries. Only 23 countries reported patients having to undergo a SARS-CoV-2 test, and 20 countries did not report any COVID-19 testing in their clinic. Additional support counselling was offered in 28 countries, partner restrictions at clinics were reported in 41 countries and time between patients’ appointments was increased in 39 countries. CONCLUSIONS: The implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures proved the need for government societies to introduce a set protocol that includes requirements such as increased patient counselling and additional guidelines for prioritizing couples who need care most urgently. Reproductive Healthcare Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-04 2021-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8712431/ /pubmed/35190253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.12.016 Text en © 2021 Reproductive Healthcare Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Cutting, Elizabeth Catt, Sally Vollenhoven, Beverley Mol, Ben W. Horta, Fabrizzio The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world |
title | The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world |
title_full | The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world |
title_fullStr | The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world |
title_short | The impact of COVID-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 mitigation measures on fertility patients and clinics around the world |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8712431/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35190253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.12.016 |
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