For over forty years, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has helped millions of patients around the world to overcome infertility. Careful monitoring of ART treatments and their outcomes is vital to maintain the remarkable pace of change in science and technology, whilst minimizing potential risks to infertility patients, and their children. Written by forty-five authors from twenty countries around the world, this book represents a global effort to document the history of assisted reproductive technology surveillance, and its dynamic challenges across the world. Comprehensive in its approach, the text details best practices in collecting and using ART surveillance data to monitor treatment effectiveness and safety, improve quality of care, develop health policy, and provide accurate information to infertility patients, worldwide.
Provides a comprehensive, detailed approach to best practices in ART, by leading experts
Features sections on safe monitoring of treatments, improving quality of care and developing health policies, across continents
Written by forty-five authors from twenty countries around the world, this book represents a global effort to document the forty-year history of assisted reproductive technology surveillance
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Part I. Introduction to Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance:
1. Infertility and assisted reproductive technology Sheree L. Boulet, Anjani Chandra, Aaron Rosen and Alan DeCherney
2. Importance and history of assisted reproductive technology surveillance Jacques de Mouzon, Paul Lancaster and Anders Nyboe Andersen
Part II. General Principles of Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance:
3. Assisted reproductive technology surveillance: who, what, when, and how? Sara Crawford, Dmitry M. Kissin and Georgina Chambers
4. Future directions for assisted reproductive technology surveillance and monitoring novel technology Christian De Geyter and Eli Y. Adashi
Part III. Using Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance Data:
5. Reporting assisted reproductive technology success rates Georgina Chambers, Kevin Doody and Sara Crawford
6. Using assisted reproductive technology surveillance data in clinical research Valerie L. Baker, Sheree L. Boulet and Anja Bisgaard Pinborg
7. Monitoring assisted reproductive technology safety and biovigilance Luca Gianaroli, Anna Pia Ferraretti and Borut Kovacic
8. Quality assurance of assisted reproductive technology practice: using data to improve clinical care Kevin Doody, Carlos Calhaz-Jorge and Jesper Smeenk
9. Monitoring long-term outcomes of assisted reproductive technology: linking surveillance data with other datasets Barbara Luke, Sheree L. Boulet and Anna-Karina Aaris Henningsen
10. Use of assisted reproductive technology surveillance by infertility patients Sandra K. Dill, Edgar Mocanu and Petra Thorn
Part IV. Global Variations in Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance:
11. Global assisted reproductive technology surveillance: data from the international committee monitoring ART (ICMART) G. David Adamson
12. Global variations in assisted reproductive technology policy: data from the international federation of fertility societies (IFFS) Steven J. Ory and Kathleen Miller
13. ART surveillance in Africa Silke Dyer, Paversan Archary and G. David Adamson
14. ART surveillance in Asia Osamu Ishihara, Manish Banker and Bai Fu
15. ART surveillance in Australia and New Zealand Georgina Chambers, Paul Lancaster and Peter Illingworth
16. ART surveillance in Europe Christian de Geyter, Markus S. Kupka and Carlos Calhaz-Jorge
17. ART surveillance in the Middle East Johnny Awwad, Dalia Khalife and Ragaa Mansour
18. ART surveillance in North America James Patrick Toner, Andrea Lanes and Dmitry M. Kissin
19. ART surveillance in Latin America Fernando Zegers-Hochschild, Javier A. Crosby and Juan Enrique Schwarze
Part V. Surveillance of Non-ART Fertility Treatments:
20. The role of non-IVF fertility treatments in the management of infertility Christine Wyns, Diane de Neubourg and Eli Y. Adashi
21. Non-ART surveillance Markus S. Kupka and Anja Bisgaard Pinborg
Appendix A. Assisted reproductive technology surveillance system variables and definitions
Appendix B. International glossary on infertility and fertility care
Appendix C. ICMART data collection form
Index
