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. 2020 Jul 9;35(8):1732–1739. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deaa138

Table I.

Summary of systematic literature search criteria.

Database(s) searched PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase
Cut-off date for publications 16 August 2019
Key words/search terms

  • ARTs, fertility treatment, ovarian stimulation, ovulation induction, IVF, intracytoplasmic sperm injections, infertility, subfertility/subfecundity/sterility, intrauterine insemination or intracytoplasmic sperm injection

  • AND

  • Time to or duration

  • AND

  • Birth/arrival/baby/pregnancy/delivery/conception
Excluded terms HIV, cancer, neoplasm, timelapse
Screening criteria for inclusiona A clinical study in the context of infertility (population is infertile or had clinical risk factors for infertility, e.g. fibroids, polycystic ovary syndrome, etc.) and/or a population is undergoing fertility management or treatment (also including fertility referral and fertility investigation), with a treatment measure that contained duration of time as an outcome (e.g. time to pregnancy or time to live birth).
Screening criteria for exclusiona Non-clinical studies, including epidemiological incidence and prevalence studies, reviews, meta-analyses, case reports and case series.

Results were automatically filtered to include studies in humans and publications in English, and duplicates were removed.

a

Based on titles and abstracts.