Trends in embryo disposition decisions: patients' responses to a 15-year mailing program

How to Compute Optimal Catalog Mailing Decisions

W develop, estimate, and test a response model of order timing and order volume decisions of catalog customers and derive a Bayes rule for optimal mailing strategies. The model integrates the when and how much components of the response; incorporates the mailing decision of the firm; and uses a Bayesian framework to determine the optimal mailing rule for each catalog customer. The Bayes rule we...

Direct Mailing Decisions for a Dutch Fundraiser

Direct marketing firms want to transfer their message as efficiently as possible in order to obtain a profitable long-term relationship with individual customers. Much attention has been paid to address selection of existing customers and on identifying new profitable prospects. Less attention has been paid to the optimal frequency of the contacts with customers. We provide a decision support s...

Decisions on embryo disposition in cross-border reproductive care: differences between Belgian and Dutch patients at a Belgian fertility center

Empirical research into cross-border reproductive care is scarce and many facets of the phenomenon are unexplored. The objective of this study was to compare Belgian and Dutch patients regarding the way they perceived the treatment they received and regarding the embryo disposition decisions (EDDs) they made. A questionnaire was sent to patients for whom embryos were cryopreserved at the Ghent ...

"Rethinking" embryo disposition upon divorce.

Embryo disposition: choices made by patients and donor oocyte recipients.

OBJECTIVE To compare final embryo disposition between patients and donor oocyte recipients. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Private infertility practice. PATIENT(S) Patients undergoing IVF with embryo cryopreservation. INTERVENTION(S) None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Final cryopreserved embryo disposition. RESULT(S) A total of 1,262 patients using autologous oocytes had 5,417 embry...