The impact of a reminder email on the return to care behavior of infertility patients after a first office visit: A quality improvement project.

Research Question: Prior research has determined that up to half of infertility patients attend one visit with an infertility specialist but do not return for a diagnostic workup or treatment. As part of a quality-of-care improvement project, patients who had not returned after one visit with an infertility specialist received an email which asked why they had not returned. The return to care behavior was then compared to a period of time when the email was not sent out, to answer the question as to whether or not the email had a significant impact on behavior.

The use of propensity score matching to assess the benefit of the endometrial receptivity analysis in frozen embryo transfers.

Objective: To study the impact of the endometrial receptivity analysis (ERA) on live birth rates in frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycles.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: A single, large, university-affiliated infertility practice.