Abstract:
:Background: IVF is now a wide spread procedure globally, and currently 65 countries report annually all or part of their IVF/ICSI cycles, from which the International Committee Monitoring progress in Assisted Reproduction Technology (ICMART) published its report. There is considerable variation in the utilization (number of cycles per population) globally. Aims: The objectives of this study were to assess whether utilization is related to national wealth, presented as gross domestic product (GDP), and whether the GDP has any effect on success in IVF treatment, mainly delivery and clinical pregnancy rates. Results: The results demonstrated a significant positive correlation between utilization and GDP (CC = 0.563, p = 0.00000194), and both utilization and GDP have strong negative correlations to successful outcome of the treatment-clinical pregnancy rate (CC: -0.460, p = 0.00015; CC: -0.399, p = 0.0012, respectively) and delivery rates (cc = -0.396, p = 0.00484; cc = -0.3, p = 0.0179, respectively). Conclusions: Poor nations have less utilization of IVF, probably due to the limited affordability of the treatment, but reassuringly do not seem to have less success in the treatment. Further research is required to fully understand the implications of these correlations and to better design national and international fertility policies.
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J Med Econjournal_title
Journal of medical economicsauthors
Lass A,Chaudary W,Lass Gdoi
10.1080/13696998.2019.1609484subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-09-01 00:00:00pages
878-882issue
9eissn
1369-6998issn
1941-837Xjournal_volume
22pub_type
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journal_title:Journal of medical economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3111/13696998.2013.829079
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journal_title:Journal of medical economics
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
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更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.3111/13696998.2015.1061533
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical economics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/13696998.2018.1502191
更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2020-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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journal_title:Journal of medical economics
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更新日期:2020-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of medical economics
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3111/13696998.2013.777346
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00