Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 725-736 , February 2010

Infertility service use among U.S. women: 1995 and 2002

An earlier version of this analysis was presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, March 30-April 1, 2006.

  • Anjani Chandra, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Anjani Chandra, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782 (TEL; 301-458-4138; FAX: 301-458-4033).
    • ,
  • Elizabeth Hervey Stephen, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Received 3 September 2008 ,Revised 27 October 2008 ,Accepted 27 October 2008.

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 The National Center for Health Statistics conducts the National Survey of Family Growth, the data source for this analysis. NCHS Institutional Review Board approval was originally obtained for the NSFG protocol (#2006-01) on 1/27/06, with the most recent annual continuation request approved on 10/14/08.

 A.C. has nothing to disclose. E.H.S. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)04409-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.10.049

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