Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Gynecology

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Endometriosis

• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Endometriosis in Australia: prevalence and hospitalisations [2019]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • National Action Plan for Endometriosis [2018]
• Canada
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
    • Prevalence, Symptomatic Burden, and Diagnosis of Endometriosis in Canada: Cross-Sectional Survey of 30 000 Women [2019]
• Europe
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Recommendations for the Surgical Treatment of Endometriosis. Part 1: Ovarian Endometrioma [2017]
    • ESHRE guideline: management of women with endometriosis [2014]
  • European Society of Urogenital Radiology
    • European society of urogenital radiology (ESUR) guidelines: MR imaging of pelvic endometriosis [2017]
  • Implementation Science
    • The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis: an electronic guideline implementability appraisal [2011]
• Germany
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • National German Guideline (S2k): Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometriosis [2014]
• India
  • Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
    • GCPR on Endometriosis [2017]
• International
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Diagnosis and management of endometriosis: a systematic review of international and national guidelines [2018]
  • BMJ Open
    • Protocol for developing, disseminating and implementing a core outcome set for endometriosis [2016]
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and biobanking harmonization project: II. Clinical and covariate phenotype data collection in endometriosis research [2014]
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonization Project: III. Fluid biospecimen collection, processing, and storage in endometriosis research [2014]
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonisation Project: IV. Tissue collection, processing, and storage in endometriosis research [2014]
    • World Endometriosis Research Foundation Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonisation Project: I. Surgical phenotype data collection in endometriosis research [2014]
    • Pain scoring in endometriosis: entry criteria and outcome measures for clinical trials. Report from the Art and Science of Endometriosis meeting [2010]
  • Reproductive Sciences
    • Defining Future Directions for Endometriosis Research [2013]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Systematic approach to sonographic evaluation of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis, including terms, definitions and measurements: a consensus opinion from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group [2016]
  • World Endometriosis Society
    • World Endometriosis Society consensus on the classification of endometriosis [2017]
    • Consensus on current management of endometriosis [2013]
• Italy
  • PLoS ONE
    • Incidence and Estimated Prevalence of Endometriosis and Adenomyosis in Northeast Italy: A Data Linkage Study [2016]
• Malaysia
  • Obstetrical & Gynaecological Society of Malaysia
    • Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Endometriosis [2016]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Diagnosis and Management of Endometriosis in New Zealand [2020]
• Republic of Korea
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
    • Clinical evaluation and management of endometriosis: guideline for Korean patients from Korean Society of Endometriosis [2018]
• South Africa
  • Southern African Society of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecological Endoscopy
    • South African guideline for treatment of endometriosis [2017]
• Sweden
  • Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care
    • Endometriosis – Diagnosis, treatment and patient experiences [2018]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
    • Women with endometriosis have higher comorbidities: Analysis of domestic data in Taiwan [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Endometriosis [2018]
    • Endometriosis: diagnosis and management [2017]
    • Endometriosis and fibroids
  • NHS England
    • Severe endometriosis [2013]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Effect of Surgery for Endometriomas on Fertility [2017]
• United States of America
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Endometriosis
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Gynecologic ultrasound
    • Gynecologic surgery
    • Female infertility
    • Dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain
    • Abnormal uterine bleeding, menorrhagia

Gynecologic surgery

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Use of the Veress needle to obtain pneumoperitoneum prior to laparoscopy [2017]
    • Use of lasers in obstetrics and gynaecology [2017]
    • Tissue Extraction at Minimally Invasive Procedures [2017]
    • Position statement on robotic-assisted laparoscopy [2017]
    • Guidelines for performing gynaecological endoscopic procedures [2017]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Trial of Void in Gynecological Surgery Patients: Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2018]
    • Hysteroscopic Intrauterine Morcellation for Benign Intrauterine Pathologies: Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2018]
    • Pre-Operative Naproxen for Gynecological Surgery: Clinical Effectiveness [2017]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Morcellation During Gynaecologic Surgery: Its Uses, Complications, and Risks of Unsuspected Malignancy [2019]
    • Gynaecologic Surgery for Patients with Obesity [2019]
    • Surgical Safety Checklist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology [2018]
    • Hemorrhagic Shock [2018]
    • Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Gynaecologic Procedures [2018]
    • Laparoscopic Entry: A Review of Techniques, Technologies, and Complications [2017]
    • Diagnosis and Management of Adnexal Torsion in Children, Adolescents, and Adults [2017]
• International
  • AAGL
    • Morcellation during Uterine Tissue Extraction: An Update [2018]
    • AAGL practice report: practice guidelines on intrauterine adhesions developed in collaboration with the European Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) [2017]
    • Morcellation During Uterine Tissue Extraction [2014]
    • Guidelines for Privileging for Robotic-Assisted Gynecologic Laparoscopy [2014]
    • AAGL Practice Report: Practice Guidelines for the Management of Hysteroscopic Distending Media [2013]
    • AAGL Position Statement: Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery in Benign Gynecology [2013]
    • AAGL Practice Report: Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Endometrial Polyps [2012]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Elective surgery and COVID-19 [2020]
    • COVID-19 – Restarting Elective Surgery [2020]
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • Standards for Gynecologic Surgery [2013]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Guidelines for the application of hysteroscopy in gynecology [2019]
    • Thromboprophylaxis in women undergoing gynecological surgery or assisted reproductive techniques: new advances and challenges [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Joint RCOG / BSGE Statement on gynaecological endoscopy during the COVID19 pandemic [2020]
    • Morcellation for myomectomy or hysterectomy (Consent Advice No. 13) [2019]
    • Diagnostic Laparoscopy (Consent Advice No. 2) [2017]
    • The Use of Adhesion Prevention Agents in Obstetrics and Gynaecology [2013]
    • Enhanced Recovery in Gynaecology [2013]
    • Hysteroscopy, Best Practice in Outpatient [2011]
    • Gynaecology: emergency services standards of practice and service organisation [2009]
    • Diagnostic Hysteroscopy Under General Anaesthesia (Consent Advice No. 1) [2008]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Topical Hemostatic Agents at Time of Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgery [2020]
    • The Use of Hysteroscopy for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Intrauterine Pathology [2020]
    • Robot-Assisted Surgery for Noncancerous Gynecologic Conditions [2020]
    • Perioperative Pathways: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery [2018]
    • Management of Mesh and Graft Complications in Gynecologic Surgery [2017]
    • Guiding Principles for Privileging of Innovative Procedures in Gynecologic Surgery [2016]
    • Gynecologic Surgery in the Obese Woman [2015]
    • Chronic Antithrombotic Therapy and Gynecologic Surgery [2014]
  • Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Pelvic Surgical Site Infections in Gynecologic Surgery [2015]
  • Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
    • Consensus Bundle on Prevention of Surgical Site Infections After Major Gynecologic Surgery [2017]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Intracorporeal Electromechanical Tissue Morcellation: A Critical Review and Recommendations for Clinical Practice [2014]
  • Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
    • Recommended standardized terminology of the anterior female pelvis based on a structured medical literature review [2018]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Vulvar diseases
    • Uterine fibroids
    • Urogynecology, urinary and fecal incontinence
    • Hysterectomy
    • Gynecologic ultrasound
    • Female genital neoplasms
    • Endometriosis
    • Ectopic pregnancy
    • Breast diseases

Gynecologic ultrasound

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine
    • Policy on Vaginal Scanning by Sonographers [2014]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Initial Investigation and Management of Benign Ovarian Masses [2020]
    • Asymptomatic Endometrial Thickening [2018]
    • Joint CAR/SOGC Statement on Performing Ultrasound Examinations of the Female Pelvis [2016]
• Europe
  • European Society of Urogenital Radiology
    • ESUR recommendations for MR imaging of the sonographically indeterminate adnexal mass: an update [2017]
• International
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Consensus Statement on rationalization of gynecological ultrasound services in context of SARS-CoV-2 [2020]
  • World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
    • Guidelines for Cleaning Transvaginal Ultrasound Transducers Between Patients [2017]
• United States of America
  • American College of Radiology
    • Clinically Suspected Adnexal Mass
    • Acute Pelvic Pain in the Reproductive Age Group
    • ACR–ACOG–AIUM–SPR–SRU Practice Parameter for the Performance of Ultrasound of the Female Pelvis
  • American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
    • AIUM Practice Parameter for the Performance of an Ultrasound Examination of the Female Pelvis [2020]
    • Obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound curriculum and competency assessment in residency training programs: consensus report [2018]
    • Gynecologic Ultrasound
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Uterine fibroids
    • Trophoblastic neoplasms
    • Menstruation disturbances, female gonadal disorders
    • Infertility, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy
    • Hirsutism
    • Gynecologic surgery
    • Female genital neoplasms
    • Endometriosis

Hysterectomy

• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Peripartum hysterectomy in Australia: a working paper using the National Hospital Morbidity Database 2003–04 to 2013–14 [2016]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Managing the adnexae at the time of hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease [2017]
• Canada
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
    • Hysterectomy Trends: A Canadian Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future [2019]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Prevalence of self-reported hysterectomy among Canadian women, 2000/2001–2008 [2014]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Hysterectomy for Benign Gynaecologic Indications [2019]
    • Supracervical Hysterectomy [2018]
    • Hysterectomy [2018]
• Denmark
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • The Danish Hysterectomy and Hysteroscopy Database [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Potentially Avoidable Peripartum Hysterectomies in Denmark: A Population Based Clinical Audit [2016]
• Finland
  • BMJ Open
    • Ten years of progress—improved hysterectomy outcomes in Finland 1996–2006: a longitudinal observation study [2013]
• Germany, Switzerland, Austria
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Hysterectomy for Benign Uterine Disease [2016]
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Indications and Route of Hysterectomy for Benign Diseases. Guideline of the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG [2016]
• India
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • Deciding the Route for Hysterectomy: Indian Triage System [2014]
• International
  • AAGL
    • AAGL Practice Report: Practice Guidelines on the Prevention of Apical Prolapse at the Time of Benign Hysterectomy [2014]
    • AAGL Practice Report: Practice Guidelines for Intraoperative Cystoscopy in Laparoscopic Hysterectomy [2012]
    • AAGL Position Statement: Route of Hysterectomy to Treat Benign Uterine Disease [2011]
• Netherlands
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign indications: clinical practice guideline [2017]
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Decreasing trend of hysterectomy in Taiwan: A population-based study, 1997–2010 [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Laparoscopic techniques for hysterectomy [2007]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Post-Hysterectomy Vaginal Vault Prolapse [2015]
    • Abdominal Hysterectomy for Benign Conditions (Consent Advice) [2009]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Choosing the Route of Hysterectomy for Benign Disease [2017]
  • Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • 28 Years of Using Hysterectomy Guidelines to Determine the Feasibility of Vaginal Hysterectomy [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Gynecologic surgery

Uterine fibroids

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Fibroids in Infertility [2018]
• Canada
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • The past, present, and future of selective progesterone receptor modulators in the management of uterine fibroids [2018]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Uterine-Preserving Interventions for the Management of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: A Systematic Review of Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness [2016]
    • Ulipristal Acetate (Fibristal) (5 mg Tablets): Treatment of Moderate to Severe Signs and Symptoms of Uterine Fibroids in Adult Women of Reproductive Age Who are Eligible for Surgery. The Duration of Treatment is Limited to Three Months [2013]
  • Current Medical Research and Opinion
    • Contemporary management of uterine fibroids: focus on emerging medical treatments [2015]
  • Health Quality Ontario
    • Magnetic Resonance–Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: An Evidence-Based Analysis [2015]
    • Magnetic Resonance-Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) for Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: An Economic Analysis [2015]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Medical Management of Symptomatic Uterine Leiomyomas – An Addendum [2019]
    • The Management of Uterine Leiomyomas [2015]
    • The Management of Uterine Fibroids in Women With Otherwise Unexplained Infertility [2015]
• Europe
  • European Medicines Agency
    • Suspension of ulipristal acetate for uterine fibroids during ongoing EMA review of liver injury risk [2020]
  • European Menopause and Andropause Society
    • EMAS position statement: Management of uterine fibroids [2014]
  • European Society of Urogenital Radiology
    • European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) Guidelines: MR Imaging of Leiomyomas [2018]
• Germany
  • Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
    • Magnetic resonance imaging-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for uterine fibroids [2017]
• Germany, Switzerland, Austria
  • RöFo
    • Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) for Fibroid Treatment: Results of the 6th Radiological Gynecological Expert Meeting [2017]
    • MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound in Fibroid Treatment - Results of the 3rd Radiological-Gynecological Expert Meeting [2017]
    • Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) for Fibroid Treatment--Results of the 5th Radiological Gynecological Expert Meeting [2015]
    • Magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound for fibroid treatment--results of the second radiological gynecological expert meeting [2015]
• International
  • AAGL
    • AAGL Practice Report: Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Submucous Leiomyomas [2012]
• Low-resource settings
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology International
    • Myomectomy during Caesarean Birth in Fibroid-Endemic, Low-Resource Settings [2013]
• Spain
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Updated approaches for management of uterine fibroids [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) for uterine fibroids [2015]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Esmya (ulipristal acetate): suspension of the licence due to risk of serious liver injury [2020]
    • Esmya (ulipristal acetate) for uterine fibroids: do not initiate or re-start treatment; monitor liver function in current and recent users [2018]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Ultrasound-guided high-intensity transcutaneous focused ultrasound for symptomatic uterine fibroids [2019]
    • Hysteroscopic morcellation of uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) [2015]
    • Magnetic resonance image-guided transcutaneous focused ultrasound for uterine fibroids [2011]
    • Uterine artery embolisation for fibroids [2010]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Suspension of ulipristal acetate for uterine fibroids during ongoing EMA review of liver injury risk [2021]
    • Uterine Artery Embolisation in the Management of Fibroids [2013]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Management of Uterine Fibroids [2017]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Uterine Morcellation for Presumed Leiomyomas [2021]
  • American College of Radiology
    • Radiologic Management of Uterine Leiomyomas
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • The Estimated Annual Cost of Uterine Leiomyomata in the United States [2012]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Removal of myomas in asymptomatic patients to improve fertility and/or reduce miscarriage rate: a guideline [2017]
    • Myomas
    • Fibroids or Myomas
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Miscarriage
    • Gynecologic ultrasound
    • Gynecologic surgery
    • Dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain
    • Abnormal uterine bleeding, menorrhagia

Vulvar diseases

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Localised provoked vestibulodynia (vulvodynia): assessment and management [2015]
• Europe
  • International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
    • 2016 European guideline for the management of vulval conditions [2016]
  • Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
    • Evidence-based (S3) Guideline on (anogenital) Lichen sclerosus [2015]
• International
  • British Journal of Dermatology
    • Diagnostic criteria for erosive lichen planus affecting the vulva: an international electronic-Delphi consensus exercise [2013]
• United Kingdom
  • British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
    • 2014 UK National Guideline on the Management of Vulval Conditions [2014]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Balloon catheter insertion for Bartholin's cyst or abscess [2009]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Persistent Vulvar Pain [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Vulvitis, vaginitis
    • Vulvar cancer
    • Gynecologic surgery