ART center operation including: patient check-in, medication-related billing, patient education, communication channels between the clinic and embryology/andrology laboratories, STD screening of commercial egg/sperm banks, and consent form standardization. When combined with stakeholder analysis, the findings identified areas for improvement in efficiency.CONCLUSIONS: This data-driven, evidence-based model can help re-engineer the manner in which an ART clinic operates and has the capability to develop standardized models to improve the efficiency of operations for ART clinics. In the future, established standardized models could be utilized by regulatory bodies to evaluate efficiency and patient safety protocols on national and international levels.
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