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Cost-effectiveness of preimplantation genetic screening for women older than 37 undergoing in vitro fertilization

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, July 2017
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Title
Cost-effectiveness of preimplantation genetic screening for women older than 37 undergoing in vitro fertilization
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Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, July 2017
DOI 10.1007/s10815-017-1001-8
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Stephen C. Collins, Xiao Xu, Winifred Mak

Abstract

Adding preimplantation genetic screening to in vitro fertilization has been shown to increase live birth rate in women older than 37. However, preimplantation genetic screening is an expensive procedure. Information on the cost-effectiveness of preimplantation genetic screening can help inform clinical decision making. We constructed a decision analytic model for a hypothetical fresh, autologous in vitro fertilization cycle (with versus without preimplantation genetic screening) for women older than age 37 who had a successful oocyte retrieval and development of at least one blastocyst. The model incorporated probability and cost estimates of relevant clinical events based on data from published literature. Sensitivity analyses were performed to examine the impact of changes in model input parameters. In base-case analysis, IVF-PGS offered a 4.2 percentage point increase in live birth rate for an additional cost of $4509, yielding an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of $105,489 per additional live birth. This ICER was below the expected cost of $145,063 for achieving one live birth with IVF (assuming an average LBR of 13.4% and $19,415 per cycle for this patient population). Sensitivity analysis suggested that ICER improved substantially with decreases in PGS cost and increases in PGS effectiveness. Monte Carlo simulation showed PGS to be cost-effective in 93.9% of iterations at an acceptability cutoff of $145,063. Considering the expected cost of achieving one live birth with IVF, PGS is a cost-effective strategy for women older than 37 undergoing IVF. Additional research on patients' willingness-to-pay per live birth would further inform our understanding regarding the cost-effectiveness of PGS.

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Unknown 73 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Other 7 10%
Student > Master 6 8%
Other 16 22%
Unknown 15 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 36%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 1%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 21 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 November 2017.
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#4,865,114
of 24,119,703 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
#243
of 1,697 outputs
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#80,924
of 320,674 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
#2
of 27 outputs
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