Assisted Reproduction · Registries and Reporting
Abstract
This yearbook of the Deutsches IVF-Register (DIR) presents the register's evaluation for 2003, which the foreword describes as the eighth annual evaluation of its kind since the register's federal office was established in Bad Segeberg. According to the foreword, the 107,675 treatment cycles documented were the highest number to date, partly because of a steep rise in treatments in the last quarter of 2003 in response to the impending health reform. The foreword anticipates markedly lower treatment numbers for 2004. Further sections report results of in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and cryopreservation, and data on children born, including multiple births.
