Impact of Protocol Adjustments Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infertility Treatment Outcomes

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our centre made adjustments that reduced the number of patient visits, ultrasound scans, laboratory investigations, and face-to face instructions. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether these changes had any effect on the pregnancy rate for patients...

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Autores principales: Vastis, Vasilia, Hussaini, Sofia, Neal, Michael, Karnis, Megan, Taerk, Evan, Amin, Shilpa, Deniz, Stacy, Faghih, Mehrnoosh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada/La Société des obstétriciens et gynécologues du Canada. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Brief Communication • Brèves
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9069974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35526833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2022.03.021
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author Vastis, Vasilia
Hussaini, Sofia
Neal, Michael
Karnis, Megan
Taerk, Evan
Amin, Shilpa
Deniz, Stacy
Faghih, Mehrnoosh
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Hussaini, Sofia
Neal, Michael
Karnis, Megan
Taerk, Evan
Amin, Shilpa
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description As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our centre made adjustments that reduced the number of patient visits, ultrasound scans, laboratory investigations, and face-to face instructions. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether these changes had any effect on the pregnancy rate for patients undergoing infertility treatment. The primary outcome was clinical pregnancy rates from intrauterine insemination and frozen embryo transfer. Clinical pregnancy rates were not statistically different between patients who underwent either procedure before and after the protocols were put in place. It is reassuring to know our pandemic protocol adjustments did not have a negative impact on infertility treatment outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-90699742022-05-04 Impact of Protocol Adjustments Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infertility Treatment Outcomes Vastis, Vasilia Hussaini, Sofia Neal, Michael Karnis, Megan Taerk, Evan Amin, Shilpa Deniz, Stacy Faghih, Mehrnoosh J Obstet Gynaecol Can Brief Communication • Brèves As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our centre made adjustments that reduced the number of patient visits, ultrasound scans, laboratory investigations, and face-to face instructions. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether these changes had any effect on the pregnancy rate for patients undergoing infertility treatment. The primary outcome was clinical pregnancy rates from intrauterine insemination and frozen embryo transfer. Clinical pregnancy rates were not statistically different between patients who underwent either procedure before and after the protocols were put in place. It is reassuring to know our pandemic protocol adjustments did not have a negative impact on infertility treatment outcomes. The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada/La Société des obstétriciens et gynécologues du Canada. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-09 2022-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9069974/ /pubmed/35526833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2022.03.021 Text en © 2022 The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada/La Société des obstétriciens et gynécologues du Canada. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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.
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Neal, Michael
Karnis, Megan
Taerk, Evan
Amin, Shilpa
Deniz, Stacy
Faghih, Mehrnoosh
Impact of Protocol Adjustments Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infertility Treatment Outcomes
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