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Polycystic ovaries, high antral follicle count (AFC) and previous OHSS increase the risk of developing OHSS. IVM of oocytes offers great potential for patients with high AFC, since there is no risk of OHSS. With regard to patients\u2019 perspectives on fertility treatments, it has been shown that women undergoing IVF place different values on treatment characteristics, such as effectiveness (pregnancy rate), cancellation risk, safety (OHSS risk) and burden (side effects). To our knowledge, the preferences for different IVF treatments in women with increased risk of OHSS have not been studied yet.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>A multicentre discrete choice experiment (DCE) was performed between 2012 and 2016. The selected attributes offered were chance of OHSS, which represents safety; number of injections; chance of cycle cancellation (the latter two represent burden); chance of pregnancy; and out-of-pocket costs\/willingness to pay. A target sample size was calculated by including 20 patients for five attributes resulting in the aim to include 100 women.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>PARTICIPANTS\/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We invited subfertile women who were diagnosed with normogonadotrophic ovulation disorder and were undergoing treatment with gonadotrophins and\/or had experienced (imminent) OHSS in a previous IVF treatment in the fertility clinic of four hospitals (three teaching and one academic). Women received a printed questionnaire with fictional scenarios and were asked, for each scenario, to choose their preferred treatment. We used a multinominal logit model to determine the preferences of women and investigated heterogeneity in preferences through latent class analysis. The decrease in OHSS risk required for women to accept an increased level of an undesirable attribute, i.e. their willingness to trade off, was calculated.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We distributed 120 questionnaires with a response rate of 79% (95\/120). There were 91 questionnaires included in the analysis. All five attributes influenced women\u2019s treatment preference. About half of the women considered chance of pregnancy to be more important, while the other half considered prevention of OHSS and lower costs to be more important. Women were willing to trade off cancellation rate, number of injections, chance of pregnancy and costs for lower OHSS chances. We found that women were willing to accept 5% more chance on cycle cancellation if the OHSS rate dropped with 2%. Women were willing to accept one extra treatment for a reduction of 3.9% in OHSS risk. With respect to costs, women were willing to pay \u20ac1000 instead of no costs for a decrease in OHSS rate of 5.4%.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The sample size of our study is relatively small which may limit the generalizability and sensitivity of the study.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The results of this DCE help us to understand the trade-off that women at risk of OHSS make in their preference for characteristics on IVF treatments. This knowledge may be used during the counselling of couples about their treatment options.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>STUDY FUNDING\/COMPETING INTEREST(S)<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>B.W.M. is supported by a NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (GNT1082548). B.W.M. reports consultancy for Merck, ObsEva and Guerbet. J.P.d.B. reports personal fees from the Ferring Medical Advisory Board and grants from Ferring B. V and Merck Serono B. V outside the submitted work. There are no other conflicts of interest to declare.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>None.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/hropen\/hoz034","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,24]],"date-time":"2019-10-24T18:36:25Z","timestamp":1571942185000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["The perspective of women with an increased risk of OHSS regarding the safety and burden of IVF: a discrete choice experiment"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"2020","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1783-2079","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"S C","family":"Braam","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J P","family":"de Bruin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, \u2018s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"B W J","family":"Mol","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M","family":"van Wely","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"2020022410594448600_ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"420","DOI":"10.1016\/j.fertnstert.2005.02.026","article-title":"Treatment preferences and trade-offs for ovulation induction in clomiphene citrate-resistant patients with polycystic ovary syndrome","volume":"84","author":"Bayram","year":"2005","journal-title":"Fertil Steril"},{"key":"2020022410594448600_ref2","article-title":"Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations and their statistical analysis (with web-based Fortran code)","author":"Berg","year":"2004","journal-title":"World Scientific"},{"key":"2020022410594448600_ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1361","DOI":"10.1093\/oxfordjournals.humrep.a138261","article-title":"The ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in in-vitro fertilization: a Belgian multicentric study. 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