Labor, delivery, postpartum

Induction of labor, augmentation of labor

Australia

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Induction of labour

• Better Safer Care
  • Induction of labour

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Methods of classification for women undergoing induction of labour: a systematic review and novel classification system [2015]

• Queensland Health
  • Induction of labour

• SA Health
  • Induction and Augmentation of Labour

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Use of prostaglandins for induction of labour [2023]

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

• Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
  • Induction of Labour. Guideline of the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG (S2k, AWMF Registry No. 015-088, December 2020) [2021]

Belgium, France, Netherlands

• Journal of Medical Economics
  • Oral misoprostol tablets (25 µg) for induction of labor: a targeted literature review and cost analysis [2022]

Canada

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Labour Augmentation During the First and Second Stage of Labour

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Induction of Labour [2023]
  • Cervical Ripening and Induction of Labour – General Information [2023]
  • Cervical Ripening [2023]

China

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Labor induction in China: a nationwide survey [2022]

Ethiopia

• Heliyon
  • Failed induction of labor and its associated factors in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of failed induction of labor and associated factors among women who underwent induction of labor in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

Europe, South Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • How much synthetic oxytocin is infused during labour? A review and analysis of regimens used in 12 countries [2020]

France

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Methods of induction of labor and women’s experience: a population-based cohort study with mediation analyses [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Frequency and determinants of misuse of augmentation of labor in France: A population-based study [2021]

Germany

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Inter-institutional variations in oxytocin augmentation during labour in German university hospitals: a national survey [2019]

• Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
  • Labour Induction with Misoprostol in German Obstetric Clinics: What Are the Facts on Such Use? [2021]

High-income countries

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Inpatient versus outpatient induction of labour: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

Iceland

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Trends in labor induction indications: A 20-year population-based study [2022]

India

• Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
  • Induction of Labor: Good Clinical Practice Recommendations [2018]

International

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Mechanical methods for induction of labour [2023]
  • Low-dose oral misoprostol for induction of labour [2021]
  • Membrane sweeping for induction of labour [2020]
  • Induction of labour at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation [2020]

• European Journal of Medical Research
  • Comparison of the effect of oral and vaginal misoprostol on labor induction: updating a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies [2023]

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Using the WHO-INTEGRATE evidence-to-decision framework to develop recommendations for induction of labour [2022]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • FIGO good practice recommendations for induced or spontaneous labor at term: Prep-for-Labor triage to minimize risks and maximize favorable outcomes [2023]

• Medicine
  • The efficacy and safety of oral and vaginal misoprostol versus dinoprostone on women experiencing labor: A systematic review and updated meta-analysis of 53 randomized controlled trials [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • A systematic scoping review of clinical indications for induction of labour [2020]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Induction of Labour [2023]

Malaysia

• Ministry of Health Malaysia
  • Guidelines on Induction of Labour [2021]

Netherlands

• Birth
  • Maternal characteristics as indications for routine induction of labor: A nationwide retrospective cohort study [2022]

New Zealand

• Health New Zealand
  • Induction of Labour in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Clinical Practice Guideline 2019 [2021]

Nordic countries

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Maternal age and risk of cesarean section in women with induced labor at term-A Nordic register-based study [2020]

Norway

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Is the increasing prevalence of labor induction accompanied by changes in pregnancy outcomes? An observational study of all singleton births at gestational weeks 37-42 in Norway during 1999-2019 [2023]
  • Induction of labor and nulliparity: A nationwide clinical practice pilot evaluation [2020]

Poland

• Ginekologia Polska
  • Polish Gynecological Society recommendations for labor induction [2017]

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Guideline on induction of labour [2014]
  • Guideline for use of oxytocin for induction and augmentation of labour [2014]

Sweden

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevalence of amniotomy in Sweden: a nationwide register study [2022]

United Kingdom

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Reduction in resource use with the misoprostol vaginal insert vs the dinoprostone vaginal insert for labour induction: a model-based analysis from a United Kingdom healthcare perspective [2016]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Socioeconomic risk factors for labour induction in the United Kingdom [2020]

• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  • Misoprostol vaginal delivery system (Mysodelle): reports of excessive uterine contractions (tachysystole) unresponsive to tocolytic treatment [2018]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Induction of labour for suspected fetal macrosomia: Inducing labour [2021]
  • Inducing labour (Quality standard) [2021]
  • Inducing labour [2021]
  • Insertion of a double balloon catheter for induction of labour in pregnant women without previous caesarean section [2015]

• NHS England
  • National Patient Safety Alert – risk of oxytocin overdose during labour and childbirth [2024]
  • Induction of labour (IOL) guideline [2022]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Induction of labour at 39 weeks and adverse outcomes in low-risk pregnancies according to ethnicity, socioeconomic deprivation, and parity: A national cohort study in England [2023]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Evaluating misoprostol and mechanical methods for induction of labour [2022]
  • Induction of Labour at Term in Older Mothers [2013]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Cervical Ripening in the Outpatient Setting [2021]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Labor Induction or Augmentation and Autism [2014]

• American Family Physician
  • Cervical Ripening in the Outpatient Setting [2022]
  • Cervical Ripening and Induction of Labor [2022]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Methods for the induction of labor: efficacy and safety [2024]

• American Journal of Perinatology
  • Labor Induction at 39 Weeks Compared with Expectant Management in Low-Risk Parous Women [2022]

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
  • Elective Induction of Labor [2019]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes of Expectant Management of Full-Term, Low-Risk, Nulliparous Patients [2021]
  • Health resource utilization of labor induction versus expectant management [2020]
  • Elective Labor Induction at 39 Weeks of Gestation Compared With Expectant Management: Factors Associated With Adverse Outcomes in Low-Risk Nulliparous Women [2020]
  • Labor Induction versus Expectant Management in Low-Risk Nulliparous Women [2018]
  • Defining failed induction of labor [2018]
  • Nonmedically indicated induction vs expectant treatment in term nulliparous women [2015]
  • Failed labor induction: toward an objective diagnosis [2011]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • SMFM Statement on Elective Induction of Labor in Low-Risk Nulliparous Women at Term: the ARRIVE Trial [2019]

• StatPearls
  • Induction of Labor

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO recommendations on outpatient settings for induction of labour [2022]
  • WHO recommendations on mechanical methods for induction of labour [2022]
  • WHO recommendations on induction of labour, at or beyond term [2022]
  • WHO recommendations: Induction of labour at or beyond term [2018]
  • Recommendations for Augmentation of Labour [2015]
  • WHO recommendations for augmentation of labour [2014]
  • WHO recommendations for induction of labour [2011]

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