Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

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Obstetrics, perinatology

Australia

• Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Monash Medical Centre
  • Maternal age and risk of adverse perinatal events in primiparous women [1998]

• Department of Health and Ageing
  • Improving Maternity Services in Australia [2009]

• NSW Health
  • NSW Mothers and Babies 2004 [2006]

• Women & Newborn Health Service - Western Australia
  • O&G Clinical Guidelines Section B [Collection of guidelines]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Statement on Stand-alone Primary Childbirth Units [2007]

Canada

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Midwifery [2003]

India

• King Edward Memorial Hospital
  • Obstetric Management Guidelines [Collection of guidelines]

• Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
  • Guidelines for pregnancy care and management of common obstetric complications by medical officers [2005]
  • Guidelines for ante-natal care and skilled attendance at birth by ANMs and LHVs [2005]
  • Guidelines for operationalising first referral units [2004]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Midwife-led versus other models of care for childbearing women [2009]
  • Maternity waiting facilities for improving maternal and neonatal outcome in low-resource countries [2009]
  • Continuity of caregivers for care during pregnancy and childbirth [2009]

• EngenderHealth
  • Maternal/Child Health [Collection of guidelines]
  • Quality Improvement for Emergency Obstetric Care: Leadership Manual and Toolbook [2003]

• Global Health Council
  • Making Childbirth Safer Through Promoting Evidence-Based Care [2002]

• Pathfinder International
  • Maternal and Child Health [Collection of guidelines]

• Policy Project
  • Safe Motherhood [Collection of guidelines]
  • The MNPI Study: Measures of Strength for Maternal Health Programs in 55 Developing Countries [2004]

• Population Council
  • Safe Motherhood/Postpartum Care [Collection of guidelines]

• Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium
  • Safe Motherhood [Collection of guidelines]

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • Maternal Health [Collection of guidelines]

• United Nations Population Fund
  • Safe Motherhood [Collection of guidelines]
  • Maternal and Neonatal Health in East and South-East Asia [2006]

• World Bank
  • Accelerating Progress towards Achieving the MDG to Improve Maternal Health: A Collection of Promising Approaches [2005]

Ireland

• Department of Health and Children
  • Report on Perinatal Statistics for 2002 [2005]

Malaysia

• Perinatal Society of Malaysia
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines in Perinatalogy, First Edition [1998]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health
  • Report on Maternity 2000 and 2001 [2003]

PAHO

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Perinatology [Collection of guidelines]
  • Maternal Health [Collection of guidelines]

South Africa

• Health Systems Trust
  • 4 Key Components of a Successful Perinatal Audit [2001]

• Maternal Care Manual - Perinatal Education Programme
  • Maternal Care Manual [2006]

• Perinatal Education Programme
  • Perinatal Education Programme [2002]

United Kingdom

• Bandolier
  • Pregnancy and young children [Collection of guidelines]

• British Association of Perinatal Medicine
  • Classification of Health Status at 2 Years as a Perinatal Outcome - report of a BAPM/RCPCH working group [2008]
  • Management of Acute In-Utero Transfers: a Framework for Practice [2005]

• Department of Health
  • Healthy Child Programme: pregnancy and the first five years of life [2009]
  • Birth and beyond: stakeholder perceptions of current antenatal education provision in England [2009]
  • Birth and beyond: a review of the evidence about antenatal education [2009]
  • Maternity Matters: Choice, access and continuity of care in a safe service [2007]

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Fetal vesico-amniotic shunt for lower urinary tract outflow obstruction [2006]

• NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
  • Scottish Programme for Clinical Effectiveness in Reproductive Health (SPCERH) [Collection of guidelines]
  • Scottish Woman-Held Maternity Record [2008]
  • Perinatal Collaborative Transport Study (CoTS) [2008]
  • Maternal History Taking [2008]
  • Sharing Good Practice in Scotland's Maternity Services [2007]
  • Safety and risk associated with free standing midwife led maternity units (MLMU) [2007]
  • Maternity Services National Overview [2007]
  • Guidance for use of Scottish Woman-Held Maternity Record [2007]
  • Pregnancy and Newborn Screening Standards [2005]
  • Maternity Services Standards [2005]
  • Developing a System for Identification and Assessment of Maternal 'Near Misses' [2004]

• Royal College of Midwives
  • Position papers [Collection of guidelines]

• Royal College of Nursing
  • Pregnancy and disability: RCN guidance for midwives and nurses [2007]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Standards for Maternity Care [2008]
  • Maternity Services: Future of Small Units [2008]
  • Maternity Dashboard Clinical Performance and Governance Score Card [2008]
  • Childrens and Maternity Services in 2009: Working Time Solutions [2008]

United States of America

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Outcomes of Maternal Weight Gain [2008]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Age Terminology During the Perinatal Period [2009]

• American Medical Association
  • Pregnancy [Collection of guidelines]

• CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
  • Safe Motherhood: Promoting Health for Women Before, During, and After Pregnancy [2006]

• CDC Reproductive Health
  • Maternal and Infant Health [Collection of guidelines]

• Center for reproductive rights
  • Safe Pregnancy [Collection of guidelines]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Surveillance for Disparities in Maternal Health-Related Behaviors --- Selected States, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), 2000--2001 [2004]
  • Surveillance for Selected Maternal Behaviors and Experiences Before, During, and After Pregnancy: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), 2000 [2003]

• CORE - The Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group
  • Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Working Group [Collection of guidelines]
  • Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium [2004]

• Johns Hopkins University - Center for Communication Programs
  • Maternal and Neonatal Health Resources [Collection of guidelines]

• Lab Tests Online - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
  • Pregnancy [2008]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Critical care in pregnancy. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2009]
  • Bariatric surgery and pregnancy. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2009]
  • Routine prenatal and postnatal care. Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium [2008]
  • Systemic diseases in pregnancy. Finnish Medical Society Duodecim [2007]

• Office of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Perinatal, Early Childhood, and Special Health Needs [Collection of guidelines]
  • Improving the Health of All Mothers and Children [Collection of guidelines]

• Office of Quality and Performance
  • Management of Uncomplicated Pregnancy [2002]

• ReproLine
  • Maternal and Neonatal Health [Collection of guidelines]

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Maternal and Child Health [Collection of guidelines]

WHO

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Traditional birth attendant training for improving health behaviours and pregnancy outcomes [2009]
  • Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health-care outcomes [2006]

• World Health Organization
  • Skilled birth attendants [Collection of guidelines]
  • Maternal and perinatal health [Collection of guidelines]
  • Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health [2010]
  • Safer pregnancy in Tamil Nadu : from vision to reality [2009]
  • Monitoring emergency obstetric care : a handbook [2009]
  • Making pregnancy safer : tool for assessing the performance of the health system in improving maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health [2009]
  • Making pregnancy safer : assessment tool for the quality of hospital care for mothers and newborn babies [2009]
  • Counselling for maternal and newborn health care : a handbook for building skills [2009]
  • Tracking progress in maternal, newborn & child survival [2008]
  • WHO recommended interventions for improving maternal and newborn health [2007]
  • Standards for Maternal and Neonatal care [2007]
  • Monitoring and evaluation of maternal and newborn health and services at the district level [2007]
  • The midwife in the community [2006]
  • The effect of maternal–newborn ill-health on households: economic vulnerability and social implications [2006]
  • The costs of maternal–newborn illness and mortality [2006]
  • Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care - A guide for essential practice [2006]
  • Midwifery education modules [2006]
  • Making a difference in countries: Strategic approach to improving maternal and newborn survival and health [2006]
  • Making Pregnancy Safer/Child and Adolescent Health and Development. The Republic of Moldova [2006]
  • Impact on economic growth of investing in maternal–newborn health [2006]
  • The world health report 2005 - make every mother and child count [2005]
  • Promoting the health of mothers and newborns during birth and the postnatal period [2005]
  • Second Meeting of the Perinatal Care Task Force [2001]
  • Capacity Building Workshop for IMCI and PEPC Pre-Service Training in the European Region [2001]
  • Mother-Baby Package: Implementing safe motherhood in countries [1996]

Articles in journals

• Annals of Oncology
  • Cancer in pregnancy [2003]

• Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Sikh birth customs [2005]

• Australian Family Physician
  • What about dad? Psychosocial and mental health issues for new fathers [2006]

• BMC Medicine
  • A review of the methodological features of systematic reviews in maternal medicine [2007]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • The fetuses-at-risk approach: clarification of semantic and conceptual misapprehension [2008]
  • Theory of obstetrics: An epidemiologic framework for justifying medically indicated early delivery [2007]

• BMC Public Health
  • Risk factors for adverse perinatal outcomes in imprisoned pregnant women: a systematic review [2005]

• British Medical Journal
  • Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for maternal and neonatal health in developing countries [2005]
  • Recent developments in obstetrics [2003]
  • Randomised trial of educational visits to enhance use of systematic reviews in 25 obstetric units [1998]
  • Fetal medicine [1998]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • A systematic review of inequalities in the use of maternal health care in developing countries: examining the scale of the problem and the importance of context [2007]
  • Promoting safe motherhood through the private sector in low- and middle-income countries [2003]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Is air travel in pregnancy safe? [2008]
  • In utero exposure to therapeutic radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma [2008]
  • Safety of gadolinium during pregnancy [2006]

• Health Policy and Planning
  • Economic transition and maternal health care for internal migrants in Shanghai, China [2002]
  • Training initiatives for essential obstetric care in developing countries: a 'state of the art' review [2000]
  • Maternal and child health services in rural Nepal: does access or quality matter more? [2000]
  • Information quality in a remote rural maternity unit in Ghana [2000]
  • The hidden cost of 'free' maternity care in Dhaka, Bangladesh [1998]
  • Using perinatal audit to promote change: a review [1997]

• Journal of Nutrition
  • The Epidemiology of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: An Overview [2003]

• Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
  • Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics in Ecuador: Teaching the Teachers [2004]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Throwing out the baby with the spa water? [2004]

• Pediatrics
  • Community-Based Interventions for Improving Perinatal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence [2005]

• RadioGraphics
  • Imaging the Pregnant Patient for Nonobstetric Conditions: Algorithms and Radiation Dose Considerations [2007]

• Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
  • New discoveries on the biology and detection of human chorionic gonadotropin [2009]

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