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ArticleBMJ open2026

How declines in fertility rates are informing responses within health systems: a protocol for a scoping review.

Tatjana Gibbons, Ektoras Georgiou, Becky Skidmore, Devon Evans, Stuart Gietel-Basten, Ester Lazzari, Lone Schmidt, Soren Ziebe, G David Adamson, Christian Malte Becker and 1 more

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Tatjana GibbonsUniversity of Oxford Medical Sciences Division, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4590-5271
Ektoras GeorgiouDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health, The University of Melbourne - Parkville Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Becky SkidmoreIndependent Information Specialist, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8293-9238
Devon EvansDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada.
Stuart Gietel-BastenDivision of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5818-8283
Ester LazzariDepartment of Demography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Lone SchmidtDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Soren ZiebeDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
G David AdamsonFertility Physicians of Northern California, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Christian Malte BeckerEndometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxon, UK.
Gitau MburuWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland mburug@who.int.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5812-0529

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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GYNAECOLOGYHealth policyReproductive medicineSubfertility

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PMID42864139
PMCPMC13662019

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