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Hum. Reprod. Advance Access originally published online on March 27, 2008
Human Reproduction 2008 23(6):1242-1245; doi:10.1093/humrep/den094
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Coming soon to your clinic: high-quality ART

Inge W.H. van Empel1,3, Willianne L.D.M. Nelen1, Rosella P.M.G. Hermens2 and Jan A.M. Kremer1

1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

3 Correspondence address. E-mail: i.vanempel{at}obgyn.umcn.nl

The concept of ‘patient-friendly’ medically assisted reproduction includes a robust set of clinical practice principles, to improve the quality of subfertility care. This concept is an important move away from the sole focus on effectiveness and high pregnancy rates in assisted reproduction technology (ART). Although the concept of ‘patient-friendly ART’ has several strong points, we feel it is incomplete. For achieving true high-quality ART, the concept should be extended to two more dimensions: timeliness and patient centredness. Moreover, we propose a change in the concept's name to the less ambiguous ‘high-quality ART’.

Key words: quality of care/subfertility/patient-centred care/patient-friendly IVF

Submitted on December 14, 2007; resubmitted on February 19, 2008; accepted on March 3, 2008.


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