Minimal monitoring of ovarian hyperstimulation: a useful simplification of the clinical phase of in vitro fertilization treatment.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study, published as a controlled clinical trial.

To investigate the feasibility of IVF treatment with minimal monitoring during ovarian hyperstimulation.

Who Took Part

PubMed tags the participants as women only.

One hundred consecutive IVF cycles monitored at a transport clinic and 100 concurrent consecutive cycles monitored at satellite clinics, using the same stimulation-monitoring protocol and resulting in oocyte aspiration, are compared retrospectively for the number of ultrasound (US) measurements carried out during monitoring and for results of IVF treatment.

No patient selection took place.

How the Study Was Run

Retrospective analysis and prospective study with real-time control group.

Transport IVF program with transport clinic and satellite clinics.

After introduction of a minimal monitoring protocol at a transport clinic, a prospective study was started comparing 100 minimal monitoring cycles at a transport clinic with 100 concurrent conventional monitoring cycles at satellite clinics, all resulting in oocyte aspiration.

Patients entered the retrospective or prospective study only once.

In all cases the same laboratory facility was used.

What Was Measured

Monitoring of ovarian hyperstimulation was done with US measurements only.

The subject headings attached to it are Ambulatory Care Facilities, Fertilization in Vitro, Menotropins, Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome, Ovary, Ovulation Induction and Ultrasonography.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a controlled clinical trial.

Its findings take up roughly 10 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 1995 (Fertility and sterility), a journal based in United States.

More context: all human trials.