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Learn about the Texas Fertility Center’s Fertility Treatment and IVF Success Rates
Texas Fertility Center Success Rates:
Texas Fertility Center is a member of the Society
for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART). As a
member of SART, we are required to report the
outcome of each patient’s IVF cycle. The
method of reporting is through a computer program
that requires the clinic to enter a patient’s data
starting before their egg retrieval and continuing
through the time of their embryo transfer, pregnancy
check, sonogram for fetal sacs and heartbeats and,
finally, through the birth of their baby. This
method assures honest reporting of outcomes and does
not allow for alteration of data at a later time.
At the end of each year, the data that we report
to SART is compiled and then sent to the CDC for a
final audit. The
numbers are released by SART and the Center for
Disease Control (CDC) after all of the births for a
given year have been recorded. This explains the lag
in time before the reports are released for
publication. For example, patients who undergo IVF
in December of year 1 may not deliver until August
or September of Year 2. Although we have to contact
patients during year 2, it may take time for
patients to get back to us with the results of their
pregnancies. We then have to compile our results and
forward them onto SART and the CDC. By the time SART
and the CDC finish compiling all of the results for
Year 1 for all of the clinics in the United States,
the results are typically not published in Fertility
and Sterility and in the Federal Register until
early in Year 3.
Some clinics have chosen to not be members of
SART and do not provide their data to SART, but all
clinics must send their results to the CDC. Texas
Fertility Center is a member of SART and we,
therefore, provide our outcome data to them for
review and publication.
