Fertility and Sterility
Volume 81, Issue 2 , Pages 271-273 , February 2004

Impact of psychological factors on dropout rates in insured infertility patients

  • Alice D Domar, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Boston IVF, Waltham, Massachusetts, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Alice D. Domar, Ph.D., Boston IVF, 40 Second Avenue, Suite 300, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451, USA (FAX: 781-890-9599).

Received 7 August 2003 ,Revised 7 August 2003 ,Accepted 7 August 2003.

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PII: S0015-0282(03)02863-2

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.08.013

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 81, Issue 2 , Pages 271-273 , February 2004

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