According to the CDC, this national overview can give potential ART users an idea of their average chances of success. However, it is important to remember that average chances do not necessarily apply to a particular individual or couple. This chart offers some basic information about each clinic, including what city it is in, its phone number, what percentage of its procedures were IVF, GIFT or ZIFT, and whether it serves single women and surrogate mothers. This chart will tell you the most common causes of infertility in each clinic's program. Success Rates for Women by Age.
Success rates vary greatly depending on the woman's age.
For this reason, we felt it would be more useful for couples to be able to compare a clinic's success rates on that basis. SART, an organization of ART providers affiliated with the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, has been collecting data and publishing annual reports of pregnancy success rates for fertility clinics in the United States since 1989. A system to confirm the accuracy of the ART information was first used in the 1996 report and was implemented again in this year's analysis. With this report consumers can find out a lot more than just a clinic's success rate. They can also determine what type of ART the clinic performs most frequently, whether it serves single women or surrogate mothers, what the cause of infertility was for its patients, the average number of embryos implanted at one time and what percentage of the clinic's successes resulted in multiple births.