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Project

Infertility patients' decisions about the disposition of cryopreserved embryos.
Code
3E003006
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
    • Nursing
    • Endocrinology and metabolic diseases
    • Gynaecology and obstetrics
Keywords
patient decision-making embryo cryopreservation
 
Project description

A study about patients' disposition decisions about cryopreserved embryos (discarding, donation to others for reproductive purposes, donation for science) including: a qualitative in-dept interview study with patients, a mail survey with patients whose embryos are stored for at least two years, and a registration study of patients' decisions at the Department for Reproductive Medicine, UZ Ghent.