Impact of Subgroup Analysis on Estimates of Infertility

Overview

Journal Fertil Steril

Specialty Reproductive Medicine

Date 2006 Sep 6

PMID 16952504

Citations 5

Authors

Kim L Thornton

Marlene B Goldman

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Abstract

Conclusions regarding estimates of infertility may reflect study bias based on the definition of infertility used. Careful consideration of how the infertile population is defined, as well its use in subgroup analysis that may not be generalizable to the population of infertile women as a whole, is needed.

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