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Is it ethical to provide IVF add-ons when there is no evidence of a benefit if the patient requests it?
- Correspondence to Mila Stefanova Zemyarska, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK; mzemyarska94{at}gmail.com
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Is it ethical to provide IVF add-ons when there is no evidence of a benefit if the patient requests it?
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- Received May 30, 2018
- Revised December 25, 2018
- Accepted January 10, 2019
- First published February 11, 2019.
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May 13, 2019
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