Frida Simonstein1, Michal Mashiach-Eizenberg2, Ariel Revel3, Johnny S Younis4. 1. Department of Health System Management, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Yezreel Valley, Israel. Electronic address: fridas@yvc.ac.il. 2. Department of Health System Management, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Yezreel Valley, Israel. 3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. 4. Assisted Reproductive Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Poria Medical Center, Tiberias, Faculty of Medicine in Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To analyze whether the results and effectiveness of the open-ended treatment with IVF in Israel justifies the policy of limitless nondonor IVF rounds. DESIGN: The research sample included 535 patients. The files of these patients were reviewed; data were extracted into a questionnaire, transferred into digital files, and analyzed with SPSS. SETTING: IVF clinics. PATIENT(S): Two hundred ten women who began IVF treatment in 2000 and 325 women who were in IVF treatment during 2010. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Retrospective analysis of the success rates of live births resulting from cycles with IVF in women who started treatment in 2000, retrospective analysis of IVF results during 2010, and number of cycles in women who were in IVF treatment during 2010. RESULT(S): In the 2000 cohort, the rate of success with IVF was 54%. The success rate fell as the number of unsuccessful cycles and duration of infertility increased; age at the beginning of the treatment was influential. A similar pattern appeared in the group that was in treatment during 2010. The rate of success in the group that was in IVF treatment during 2010 was 16.6%; of the women in this group (2010, ongoing), 25% had already undergone more than five cycles and 12% of the women had already undergone more than seven cycles. CONCLUSION(S): Although limited in scope, this study suggests that the policy of limitless nondonor IVF-ET cycles in Israel should be further examined and assessed.
OBJECTIVE: To analyze whether the results and effectiveness of the open-ended treatment with IVF in Israel justifies the policy of limitless nondonor IVF rounds. DESIGN: The research sample included 535 patients. The files of these patients were reviewed; data were extracted into a questionnaire, transferred into digital files, and analyzed with SPSS. SETTING:IVF clinics. PATIENT(S): Two hundred ten women who began IVF treatment in 2000 and 325 women who were in IVF treatment during 2010. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Retrospective analysis of the success rates of live births resulting from cycles with IVF in women who started treatment in 2000, retrospective analysis of IVF results during 2010, and number of cycles in women who were in IVF treatment during 2010. RESULT(S): In the 2000 cohort, the rate of success with IVF was 54%. The success rate fell as the number of unsuccessful cycles and duration of infertility increased; age at the beginning of the treatment was influential. A similar pattern appeared in the group that was in treatment during 2010. The rate of success in the group that was in IVF treatment during 2010 was 16.6%; of the women in this group (2010, ongoing), 25% had already undergone more than five cycles and 12% of the women had already undergone more than seven cycles. CONCLUSION(S): Although limited in scope, this study suggests that the policy of limitless nondonor IVF-ET cycles in Israel should be further examined and assessed.