Sujatha Ramakrishnan: Are IVF Success Rates Really Comparable?
Sujatha Ramakrishnan, President at Academy of Clinical embryologists India, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“An IVF clinic tells a patient: ‘We have 70% success rate.’
That number is probably true. It is also possibly meaningless.
Success rate per cycle started, per egg retrieval, per embryo transfer, or per patient under 35, the same clinic can honestly quote anywhere from 30% to 70% depending on which denominator they choose. There is no deception involved here. Just no agreed standard.
This matters because patients are making one of the most emotionally and financially costly decisions of their lives based on numbers that have no common definition behind them. The solution isn’t complicated, all it requires is a shared definition which is consistently reported. Other markets have done it. We can too.
Until we agree on the denominator, we’re not really comparing outcomes – we’re comparing stories.”
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