Value-based outcome measures for ART: much room for improvement

No consensus exists on the preferred way to represent the outcomes of assisted reproductive technology (ART). Currently used outcomes are usually procedure driven and generated by healthcare professionals. Value-based healthcare, emphasizing the need to define preferred outcomes with and around patients, has raised much attention in medicine outside fertility care. This commentary outlines how currently used outcome measures could detrimentally affect the way ART is practised, and proposes ways to improve such outcomes.