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ArticleHuman reproduction open2020

Good practice recommendations for the use of time-lapse technology

ESHRE Working group on Time-lapse technology, Susanna Apter, Thomas Ebner, Thomas Freour, Yves Guns, Borut Kovacic, Nathalie Le Clef, Monica Marques, Marcos Meseguer, Debbie Montjean and 3 more

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Article in Human reproduction open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 99 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

99 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

ESHRE Working group on Time-lapse technology
Susanna ApterLivio, Stockholm, Sweden.
Thomas EbnerDepartment of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Gynecological Endocrinology, Kepler Universitätsklinikum, Linz, Austria.
Thomas FreourMédecine de la Reproduction, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France.
Yves GunsCenter for Reproductive Medicine, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Borut KovacicDepartment of Reproductive Medicine and Gynecologic Endocrinology, Univerzitetni klinicni center Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
Nathalie Le ClefEuropean Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Grimbergen, Belgium.
Monica MarquesCEMEARE, Lisbon, Portugal.
Marcos MeseguerIVF Laboratory, Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad, Valencia, Spain.
Debbie MontjeanMédecine et Biologie de la Reproduction, Hopital Saint Joseph, Marseille, France.
Ioannis SfontourisAssisted Reproduction Unit, Eugonia, Athens, Greece.
Roger SturmeyCentre for Atherothrombosis and Metabolic Disease, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Giovanni Coticchio9.baby Family and Fertility Center, Bologna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1635-9205

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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ARTembryologyembryo selectionESHREguidelinemorphokineticstime-lapse technology

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PMID32206731
PMCPMC7081060

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