Open AccessAnalysis of the effectiveness of assisted reproduction techniques:
Author(s) -
M Viera-Molina,
María Dolores Guerra-Martín
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anales del sistema sanitario de navarra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.175
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2340-3527
pISSN - 1137-6627
DOI - 10.23938/assn.0254
Subject(s) - jadad scale , psychological intervention , medicine , infertility , pregnancy rate , randomized controlled trial , live birth , gynecology , miscarriage , pregnancy , inclusion and exclusion criteria , obstetrics , alternative medicine , biology , psychiatry , cochrane library , genetics , pathology
There are a high number of people affected by infertility who require assisted reproduction techniques. For this reason the aim of this review was to analyze the effectiveness of the interventions carried out using these techniques. A systematic peer review was performed on twelve databases. Inclusion criteria were: randomized clinical trials, published between 2011 and 2016, and with a score greater than two on the Jadad scale. The pharmacological interventions that proved effective were the administration of hormones, intrauterine human chorionic gonadotropin, gonadotrophin and dehydroepiandrosterone, and metformin. An effective surgical intervention, endometrial scratching, was identified. No effective non-pharmacological interventions were found. Assisted reproduction techniques show heterogeneity in both the interventions included and effectiveness criteria (pregnancy rate, live birth rate or implantation rate), which makes a unification of criteria necessary.