Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Sexual dysfunction

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

Ejaculation disorders

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Psychosocial interventions for premature ejaculation
• United Kingdom
  • Bandolier
    • Ejaculation delay: what's normal? [2005]
    • Premature ejaculation treatments reviewed [2004]
• United States of America
  • American Urological Association
    • Premature Ejaculation [2004]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • AUA guideline on the pharmacologic management of premature ejaculation [2004]
• Articles in journals
  • Drug Design, Development and Therapy
    • Recent advances in the treatment of premature ejaculation [2010]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Male sexual disorders

Erectile dysfunction

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Psychosocial interventions for erectile dysfunction
    • Prostaglandin E1 for treatment of erectile dysfunction
    • Phosphodiesterase inhibitors for erectile dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus
• Malaysia
  • Malaysian Urological Association
    • Clinical Practice Guide in Erectile Dysfunction [2000]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Sexual Medicine
    • Guidelines on the management of erectile dysfunction [2009]
  • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
    • Extracorporeal shockwave therapy for Peyronie's disease [2003]
• United States of America
  • American College of Physicians
    • Hormonal Testing and Pharmacologic Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians [2009]
  • American Urological Association
    • Diagnostic Evaluation of Erectile Dysfunction [2007]
    • Management of Erectile Dysfunction [2006]
    • Management of Priapism [2003]
  • CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    • NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation: City of Long Beach Police Department Marine Bicycle Patrol [2001]
  • Madigan Army Medical Center
    • Erectile Dysfunction Referral Guidelines [2009]
    • Erectile Dysfunction [2007]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Hormonal testing and pharmacologic treatment of erectile dysfunction: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians [2009]
    • Congenital penile curvature. In: Guidelines on paediatric urology. European Association of Urology [2008]
    • (1) The management of erectile dysfunction: an update. (2) 2006 addendum. American Urological Association Education and Research [2005]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Management of Erectile Dysfunction [2010]
    • Diagnostic Evaluation of Erectile Dysfunction [2000]
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Erectile dysfunction - When tablets don’t work [2010]
  • BMC Urology
    • Indirect comparison of interventions using published randomised trials: systematic review of PDE-5 inhibitors for erectile dysfunction [2005]
    • Sildenafil (Viagra) for male erectile dysfunction: a meta-analysis of clinical trial reports [2002]
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • Erectile dysfunction: management update [2004]
    • Sildenafil: from the bench to the bedside [2000]
  • Cancer
    • Prediction of sexual function after radical prostatectomy [2009]
  • Clinical Interventions in Aging
    • Vardenafil for the treatment of erectile dysfunction: an overview of the clinical evidence [2009]
  • Diabetes Care
    • Microvascular Complications in Diabetic Erectile Dysfunction [2009]
  • Drug Design, Development and Therapy
    • A once-daily dose of tadalafil for erectile dysfunction: compliance and efficacy [2010]
  • International Journal of Clinical Practice
    • Toward a new ‘EPOCH’: optimising treatment outcomes with phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors for erectile dysfunction [2009]
  • International Journal of Impotence Research
    • Measurement of benign prostatic hyperplasia treatment effects on male sexual function [2009]
    • Erectile dysfunction and heart failure: the role of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors [2009]
  • Japanese Journal of Pharmacology
    • Pharmacological Aspects of Erectile Dysfunction [2002]
  • Jornal de Pediatria
    • Priapism in children: review of pathophysiology and treatment [2009]
  • Journal of Andrology
    • Medical Management of Peyronie's Disease [2008]
    • Role of Oxidative Stress in the Pathophysiological Mechanism of Erectile Dysfunction [2006]
  • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Erectile Dysfunction [2001]
  • Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
    • The Biochemical and Neurologic Basis for the Treatment of Male Erectile Dysfunction [2001]
  • Journal of Sexual Medicine
    • Potential of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells for Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction [2009]
  • Journal of Urology
    • Diabetes, Obesity and Erectile Dysfunction: Field Overview and Research Priorities [2009]
  • Pharmacological Reviews
    • Pharmacology of Penile Erection [2001]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Bigger and Better: How Pfizer Redefined Erectile Dysfunction [2006]
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
    • Erectile Dysfunction: Evaluation and New Treatment Options [2004]
  • RadioGraphics
    • Color Doppler US of the Postoperative Penis: Anatomy and Surgical Complications [2005]
• {Related topics}
  • Clinical tools, medical calculators, unit conversions, statistics, clinical research tools
    • Erectile dysfunction : Clinical tools, medical calculators
  • Guidelines
    • Male sexual disorders
  • Health News
    • Erectile Dysfunction News

Female sexual disorders

• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Lesbian Health Guidelines [2000]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Interventions for vaginismus
    • Interventions for the physical aspects of sexual dysfunction in women following pelvic radiotherapy
    • Interventions for psychosexual dysfunction in women treated for gynaecological malignancy
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Sexual Medicine
    • Guidelines on the management of sexual problems in women: the role of androgens [2010]
  • Department of Health UK
    • Vaginal tightening surgery (or vaginoplasty) [2007]
    • Female genital reshaping (or labia reduction/labiaplasty) [2006]
• United States of America
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Female sexual dysfunction. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2011]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Female Sexual Dysfunction [2008]
    • Primary Care for Lesbians and Bisexual Women [2006]
    • Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis of Dyspareunia [2001]
    • Female Sexual Dysfunction: Evaluation and Treatment [2000]
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Lesbian and bisexual women’s sexual health [2009]
  • British Medical Journal
    • The marketing of a disease: female sexual dysfunction [2005]
    • Female dyspareunia [2004]
    • The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction [2003]
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • Women's sexual dysfunction: revised and expanded definitions [2005]
  • Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry
    • Female Sexual Dysfunction: Therapeutic Options and Experimental Challenges [2009]
  • Current Opinion in Psychiatry
    • The history of ‘Female Sexual Dysfunction’ as a mental disorder in the 20th century [2010]
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • Physiologic Measures of Sexual Function in Women: A Review [2009]
  • Journal of Cancer Survivorship
    • Amelioration of sexual adverse effects in the early breast cancer patient [2010]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Lesbian health inequalities: a cultural minority issue for health professionals [2003]
    • Arousal disorders in women: complaints and complexities [2003]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance [2006]
  • Rheumatology
    • (Not) talking about sex: a systematic comparison of sexual impairment in women with systemic sclerosis and other chronic disease samples [2009]
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  • Guidelines
    • Sexual health, male and female sexual disorders
    • Menopause, hormone replacement therapy, sexual disorders
    • Female infertility
    • Adolescent sexual health

Male sexual disorders

• Europe
  • European Association of Urology
    • Guidelines on Male Sexual Dysfunction [2009]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Management of sexual dysfunction due to antipsychotic drug therapy
• United Kingdom
  • Bandolier
    • Erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation
  • British Society for Sexual Medicine
    • Guidelines on the management of sexual problems in men: the role of androgens [2010]
• United States of America
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Guidelines on male sexual dysfunction: erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. European Association of Urology [2009]
• Articles in journals
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Sex and the older man - GP perceptions and management [2007]
    • Men who have sex with men - A management approach for GPs [2006]
  • British Journal of Psychiatry
    • Culture-bound syndromes: the story of dhat syndrome [2004]
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Male sexual dysfunction: diagnosis and treatment from a sexological and interdisciplinary perspective [2009]
  • Diabetes Care
    • Urologic Complications of Diabetes [2005]
  • International Journal of Impotence Research
    • Counseling patients about sexual health when considering post-prostatectomy radiation treatment [2009]
  • Journal of Sexual Medicine
    • Clinical autonomic neurophysiology and the male sexual response: an overview [2009]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Men who have sex with men (MSM): how much to assume and what to ask? [2006]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sexual health, male and female sexual disorders
    • Male infertility
    • Erectile dysfunction
    • Ejaculation disorders
    • Andrology
    • Adolescent sexual health

Sexual health, male and female sexual disorders

• Australia
  • Department of Health and Ageing
    • Sexual Health Promotion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People – A community guide to evidence-based best practice in social and behavioural interventions [2007]
    • Research Gaps in Indigenous Sexual Health - Establishing evidence-based best practice for social and behavioural interventions: Technical Report [2007]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health Counselling by Health Care Professionals [2011]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Interactive computer-based interventions for sexual health promotion
  • International Women's Health Coalition
    • Comprehensive Sexuality Education
• Ireland
  • Department of Health and Children
    • The Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships [2006]
• United Kingdom
  • Bandolier
    • Sexual health
  • British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
    • BASHH 2006 National Guideline - consultations requiring sexual history taking [2007]
  • Department of Health UK
    • Sexual orientation: a practical guide for the NHS [2009]
    • Genitourinary Medicine 48-hour Access: Getting to target and staying there [2008]
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists
    • Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Position Statement on Sexual Orientation [2010]
• United States of America
  • CDC Sexual Health
    • CDC Sexual Health
  • Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
    • Sexuality Issues in Aging [2008]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Issues regarding sexuality. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing [2008]
    • BASHH 2006 national guidelines - consultations requiring sexual history-taking [2007]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Measuring sexual health: conceptual and practical considerations and related indicators [2010]
    • Developing sexual health programmes: a framework for action [2010]
    • Sexual behaviour in context: a global perspective [2006]
    • Defining sexual health [2006]
    • Alcohol use and sexual risk behaviour: a cross-cultural study in eight countries [2005]
    • Unsafe sex [2004]
    • Sexual health
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Chronic Illness and Sexual Functioning [2003]
    • The Proactive Sexual Health History [2002]
    • Depression and Sexual Desire [2000]
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
    • Agreement of Self-Reported and Genital Measures of Sexual Arousal in Men and Women: A Meta-Analysis [2010]
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Sex and intellectual disability – dealing with sexual health issues [2011]
    • Aging and sexuality [2010]
  • BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
    • Maca (L. meyenii) for improving sexual function: a systematic review [2010]
  • British Medical Journal
    • Sexual problems associated with infertility, pregnancy, and ageing [2004]
    • Gender related disorders [2004]
  • Cancer
    • Initial Report of the Cancer PROMIS Supplement Sexual Function Committee: Review of Sexual Function Measures and Domains Used in Oncology [2009]
  • Journal of Endocrinology
    • The endocrinology of sexual arousal [2005]
  • Lancet
    • Sexual behaviour in context: a global perspective [2006]
  • Renal Physiology
    • Sex, diabetes and the kidney [2009]
  • Salud Pública de México
    • Sexuality in subjects with intellectual disability: an educational intervention proposal for parents and counselors in developing countries [2008]
    • Sexual life in subjects with intellectual disability [2008]
    • Sexual health for people with intellectual disability [2008]
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
    • Sexuality and Schizophrenia: A Review [2009]
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  • Clinical tools, medical calculators, unit conversions, statistics, clinical research tools
    • Sexual disorders : Clinical tools, medical calculators
  • Guidelines
    • Transsexualism
    • Male sexual disorders
    • Infertility
    • Female sexual disorders
    • Adolescent sexual health

Transsexualism

• United States of America
  • Endocrine Society
    • Endocrine Treatment of Transsexual Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline [2009]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Endocrine treatment of transsexual persons: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline [2009]
• Articles in journals
  • Asian Journal of Andrology
    • Olympic sports and transsexuals [2008]
  • Endokrynologia Polska
    • Transsexualism--diagnostic and therapeutic aspects [2010]
  • European Journal of Endocrinology
    • Hormone-related tumors in transsexuals receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones [2008]
  • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Endocrine Treatment of Transsexual People: A Review of Treatment Regimens, Outcomes, and Adverse Effects [2003]
  • Postgraduate Medical Journal
    • Current management of male-to-female gender identity disorder in the UK [2007]
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  • Guidelines
    • Sexual health, male and female sexual disorders