Proposal of guidelines for the appraisal of SEMen QUAlity studies (SEMQUA)

M.C. Sanchez-Pozo1,*, J. Mendiola2, M. Serrano3, J. Mozas3, L. Bjorndahl4,5, R. Menkveld6, S.E.M. Lewis7, D. Mortimer8, N. Jorgensen9, C.L.R. Barratt10, M.F. Fernandez11,12,13 and J.A. Castilla3,14,15, on behalf of the Special Interest Group in Andrology (SIGA) of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embriology Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Seville, Spain Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Department of Health and Social Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Espinardo (Murcia), Spain Unidad de Reproduccion, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain Centre for Andrology and Sexual Medicine, Clinic of Endocrinology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa Centre for Public Health, Reproductive Medicine, Institute of Clinical Science, Queens University of Belfast, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, UK Oozoa Biomedical Inc, Box 93012 Caulfeild Village, West Vancouver, BC, Canada University Department of Growth and Reproduction, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Maternal and Child Health Science Laboratories, Centre for Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland Centro de Investigacion Medica, University of Granada, Granada, Spain San Cecilio University Hospital, Granada, Spain CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain Banco de Semen Ceifer, Granada, Spain MasVida Reproduccion, Sevilla, Spain