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Australia

• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • Hysterectomy hospitalisations 15 years and over [2017]

• 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]

• Cancer Council
  • Screening after total hysterectomy

• NSW Health
  • Clinical variation: Hysterectomy

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Managing the adnexa at the time of hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease [2023]

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

• 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]

Belgium

• BMC Women's Health
  • Using geographically weighted Poisson regression to examine the association between socioeconomic factors and hysterectomy incidence in Wallonia, Belgium [2021]

Canada

• Government of Ontario
  • Quality-Based Procedures Clinical Handbook for Hysterectomy [2016]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
  • Trainee Involvement at Vaginal Hysterectomy: A Canadian Multicentre Retrospective Review [2025]
  • 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]

• Women's Health Reports
  • Prevalence of Hysterectomy by Self-Reported Disability Among Canadian Women: Findings from a National Cross-Sectional Survey [2021]

China

• BMC Medicine
  • Prevalence of hysterectomy in urban China and associations between metabolic disorders and hysterectomy: a multicenter population-based study involving over 9 million women [2025]

Denmark

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Hysterectomy on benign indication and risk of pelvic organ prolapse surgery: A national matched cohort study [2023]

• Clinical Epidemiology
  • Trends in Hysterectomy Incidence Rates During 2000–2015 in Denmark: Shifting from Abdominal to Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures [2021]
  • 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]

Europe

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Epidemiological analysis of peripartum hysterectomy across nine European countries [2020]

• European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
  • Surgical steps of total laparoscopic hysterectomy: Part 1: Benign disease by the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) [2019]

• European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy
  • Pain management after laparoscopic hysterectomy: systematic review of literature and PROSPECT recommendations [2019]

Europe, United States

• Frontiers in Surgery
  • Conversion to laparotomy during laparoscopic hysterectomy: a meta-analysis of prevalence and key risk factors [2025]

Finland

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Pelvic organ prolapse after hysterectomy: A 10-year national follow-up study [2023]

• Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Recurrent pelvic organ prolapse after hysterectomy; a 10-year national follow-up study [2024]
  • Stress urinary incontinence after hysterectomy: a 10-year national follow-up study [2022]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Change in medical practice over time? A register based study of regional trends in hysterectomy in Finland in 2001–2018 [2021]

• BMJ Open
  • Ten years of progress—improved hysterectomy outcomes in Finland 1996–2006: a longitudinal observation study [2013]

High-income countries

• Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
  • Minimally invasive outpatient hysterectomy for a benign indication: A systematic review [2024]

India

• BMC Women's Health
  • Prevalence, socio-demographic determinants, and self-reported reasons for hysterectomy and choice of hospitalization in India [2022]

• Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
  • Advances in Hysterectomy [2024]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
  • Deciding the Route for Hysterectomy: Indian Triage System [2014]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Guidelines to prevent unnecessary hysterectomies [2022]

• Reproductive Health
  • Prevalence, sociodemographic determinants and self-reported reasons for hysterectomy in India [2019]

International

• Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
  • Cardiovascular outcomes after hysterectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]

• BMC Women's Health
  • The impact of diabetes on postoperative outcomes following hysterectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• BMJ Open
  • Risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) in patients undergoing hysterectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]
  • Efficacy and safety of dexamethasone in postoperative recovery following hysterectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Surgical approach to hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease [2023]

• Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn
  • Port placement and patient-specific docking strategies for robotic hysterectomy with the Hugo™ RAS system: an international Delphi consensus [2026]

• International Society for Gynecologic Endoscopy
  • Summary of the International Society for Gynecologic Endoscopy guidelines for patient selection and performance of vaginal hysterectomy [2021]

• International Urogynecology Journal
  • Systematic review of urological injury during caesarean section and hysterectomy [2023]

• Journal of Ovarian Research
  • Effect of hysterectomy on ovarian function: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences
  • Risk factors for surgical site infections after hysterectomy: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2026]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Cervical Screening post Hysterectomy [2024]

Kazakhstan

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • The Prevalence, Incidence, Indications and Outcomes of Peripartum Hysterectomy in Kazakhstan: Data from Unified Nationwide Electronic Healthcare System 2014-2018 [2022]

Low and middle income countries

• Journal of Global Health
  • Correlates of hysterectomy in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2026]

Netherlands

• Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign indications: clinical practice guideline [2017]

Norway

• Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
  • Hysterectomy in Norway 2008–18 [2020]

Poland

• Ginekologia Polska
  • Recommendations of the Polish Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians for removal of the uterus by vaginal, laparoscopic and abdominal routes [2020]

Republic of Korea

• Healthcare
  • Analysis of the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Incidence of Hysterectomy Using Data of the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES) [2022]

Sweden

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Preoperative risk factors and their cumulative impact on nonsatisfaction after benign hysterectomy: A population-based nation-wide register study [2026]
  • National implementation of vaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery for benign hysterectomies: A historical cohort study of Swedish data 2021-2023 [2026]
  • Why not vaginal?-Nationwide trends and surgical outcomes in low-risk hysterectomies: A retrospective cohort study [2025]

Taiwan

• Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Therapy
  • Surgical Trend and Volume Effect on the Choice of Hysterectomy Benign Gynecologic Conditions [2021]

• Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Peripartum hysterectomy in Taiwan: Trends, organizational accreditation, and volume effects [2026]
  • Decreasing trend of hysterectomy in Taiwan: A population-based study, 1997–2010 [2015]

United Kingdom

• Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn
  • Uptake, views, opinions and practice of same-day discharge following total laparoscopic hysterectomy: a national survey of UK gynaecologists [2025]

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Laparoscopic hysterectomy versus open abdominal hysterectomy for women with a benign gynaecological condition: the LAVA RCT [2026]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Vaginal transluminal endoscopic hysterectomy and adnexal surgery for benign gynaecological conditions [2023]
  • Laparoscopic techniques for hysterectomy [2007]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Post-Hysterectomy Vaginal Vault Prolapse [2015]

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Choosing the Route of Hysterectomy for Benign Disease [2017]
  • Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Trends and predictors of hysterectomy prevalence among women in the United States [2022]

• Cancer Causes and Control
  • US hysterectomy prevalence by age, race and ethnicity from BRFSS and NHIS: implications for analyses of cervical and uterine cancer rates [2022]

• Journal of Rural Health
  • Higher prevalence of hysterectomy among rural women than urban women: Implications for measures of disparities in uterine and cervical cancers [2022]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Trends in Unplanned Peripartum Hysterectomy in the United States, 2009-2020 [2022]

• StatPearls
  • Abdominal Hysterectomy - StatPearls

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