What this card shows
The Sperm motility post-preparation card tracks the progressive motility of sperm samples after preparation, month by month. Progressive motility means rapid and slow forward movement combined, and it is the measure that matters for insemination.
There are four lines:
Mean: the average across the month's samples.
Average for selected period: the average across every sample in the date range, drawn as a dashed line.
Competency: the Vienna Consensus competency level, 90%.
Benchmark: the Vienna Consensus benchmark, 95% or above.
Average for selected period adds up the motility reading of every sample in the date range and divides by the number of readings, so a busy month counts for more than a quiet one. Compare it with the Competency and Benchmark lines to see where your lab sits over the whole period rather than month by month. It follows every filter at the top of the dashboard.
Reading the card
The vertical axis is percent motility. Higher is better, and you want your Mean line sitting at or above the Competency line.
The Competency and Benchmark lines are flat reference lines from the Vienna Consensus, not measurements from your lab.
Hover any month to see its exact mean and the average for the period.
Records with a motility value outside 0 to 100% are treated as data-entry errors and left out of the Mean and the average.
Some labs record post-preparation motility as a single "fully motile" figure of 100%, so a month sitting flat at 100 can reflect that entry habit rather than a measured result.
Two things to keep in mind when reading a month:
Post-preparation motility is not recorded on every preparation, and today most preparations do not carry a value. The lines reflect only the records where it was captured, so a month with few readings can move for reasons that are not clinical.
Sample sizes are usually small compared with embryo-level cards, so read the trend across several months rather than a single point.
The card lives on the Laboratory performance (Vienna consensus KPIs) dashboard, on the Andrology & PGT tab, and responds to the filters at the top:
Date: change the time window. It scopes by the date the preparation was carried out, and defaults to the past 6 months plus the current month.
Clinic: focus on one or more locations, if your organization has several.
Treatment type, Age at cycle start and BMI: narrow to a subset of cycles.
Where this data comes from
Post-preparation motility is recorded in the Motility section of the sperm-preparation procedure, reached from the patient's andrology and semen-analysis records. The card reads the progressive figure, so it follows the rapid and slow progressive percentages entered there.
Because the card can only use readings that were entered, filling in the post-preparation motility on every preparation is what makes these lines representative rather than a sample.
Opening this card
In wawa, open Insights from the sidebar, then go to Standard Reports → Laboratory Performance → Laboratory performance (Vienna consensus KPIs). Select the Andrology & PGT tab. The Sperm motility post-preparation card is on it.