Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Gynecology

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Endometriosis

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • National Action Plan for Endometriosis [2018]
• 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, Austria
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Interdisciplinary S2k Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometriosis [2013]
• International
  • 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]
• Republic of Korea
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
    • Clinical evaluation and management of endometriosis: guideline for Korean patients from Korean Society of Endometriosis [2018]
• 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
  • 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

• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Trial of Void in Gynecological Surgery Patients: Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2018]
    • Pre-Operative Naproxen for Gynecological Surgery: Clinical Effectiveness [2017]
• International
  • AAGL
    • 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]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • 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
    • 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]
    • Robotic Surgery in Gynecology [2015]
    • Gynecologic Surgery in the Obese Woman [2015]
    • Chronic Antithrombotic Therapy and Gynecologic Surgery [2014]
    • Solutions for Surgical Preparation of the Vagina [2013]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Intracorporeal Electromechanical Tissue Morcellation: A Critical Review and Recommendations for Clinical Practice [2014]
• {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

• Europe
  • European Society of Urogenital Radiology
    • ESUR recommendations for MR imaging of the sonographically indeterminate adnexal mass: an update [2017]
• International
  • 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
  • American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
    • Obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound curriculum and competency assessment in residency training programs: consensus report [2018]
    • AIUM Practice Guideline for the Performance of Ultrasound of the Female Pelvis [2014]
• {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]
• Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Prevalence of self-reported hysterectomy among Canadian women, 2000/2001–2008 [2014]
• Denmark
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • The Danish Hysterectomy and Hysteroscopy Database [2016]
  • Danish Health Authority
    • National clinical guideline on hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus) for benign gyneacological conditions [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]
• 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]
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Decreasing trend of hysterectomy in Taiwan: A population-based study, 1997–2010 [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • 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]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Gynecologic surgery

Uterine fibroids

• 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]
  • 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]
• Europe
  • 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]
• United Kingdom
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) for the treatment of uterine fibroids: evidence note 55 [2015]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • 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
    • 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
    • Esmya (ulipristal acetate) - MHRA safety alert [2018]
    • 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
    • Practice Advisory: Management of Uterine Leiomyomas (Fibroids) [2017]
  • 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]
• 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