Methods for a Retrospective Population-based and Clinic-based Subfertility Cohort Study: the Fertility Experiences Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most cohort-based research for subfertility has been conducted in clinic-based cohorts, which may differ from population-based cohorts.

Methods

We retrospectively recruited parallel cohorts of subfertile women: one by sampling two specialty fertility clinics in Utah, and one by population-based sampling based on marriage and birth records. The index date (of first clinic visit or subfertility status) was between 2000 and 2009, and we linked the women recruited to subsequent birth certificate records through December 2010.

Results

We enrolled 459 women through clinic-based sampling and 501 women through population-based sampling. Clinic-based women were older, had higher annual household income and more likely to have had a most intensive treatment of intrau

SUBMITTER: Stanford JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4899249 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature