Understanding clinic success rates

IVF, otherwise known as Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), includes all fertility treatments in which either eggs or embryos are handled. IVF generally involves stimulating the woman's ovaries to mature multiple eggs, extracting those eggs and fertilising them with sperm in the laboratory. The resulting embryos are then transferred into the woman's uterus with the aim of achieving a pregnancy. Some embryos may be frozen to be transferred in the future. You can find more information about IVF treatment and different treatment cycles at Understanding IVF.

There are many different ways of presenting IVF success rates. It is very important that you do not choose a clinic based only on success rates. It is difficult to compare clinic success rates fairly, as these vary greatly depending on the types of patients a clinic treats and a clinic's individual treatment strategy. For example, some clinics treat a lot of older women or certain types of infertility that are more difficult to treat and therefore their success rates will be lower. Clinics can also have different treatment strategies, for example more genetic testing, which may make some of the measures of success better than others, but the overall success rate per patient may be similar.

Make sure you consider other factors when choosing a clinic, such as:

  • location - is it close to where I live or work?
  • cost - ask each clinic what the likely costs are for your own individual treatment plan
  • counselling options - what is offered at this clinic?
  • cultural factors – what language does the fertility specialist speak?
  • services available - what are the full range of diagnostic and treatment services provided?

For each of the clinics, we have provided information on the types of patients they treat, services provided as well as a link to their website, to help you make a choice.

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