Obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, sexual and reproductive health

Labor, delivery, postpartum

Induction of labor, augmentation of labor

 

Australia

• 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 Clinical Guidelines
  • Induction of labour

Canada

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

Ethiopia

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

Europe, South Africa

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

Europe, United States, Canada, Australia

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

Germany, Switzerland, Austria

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

India

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

International

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Membrane sweeping for induction of labour [2020]
  • Induction of labour at or beyond 37 weeks' gestation [2020]

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

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

New Zealand

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

Norway

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • 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]

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]
  • Induction of labour: misoprostol vaginal delivery system [2014]
  • Induction of labour in late intrauterine fetal death: vaginal misoprostol (after oral mifepristone) [2013]

• 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]
  • Elective Induction of Labor: Safety and Harms [2009]

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

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Health resource utilization of labor induction versus expectant management [2020]

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

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

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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  • Labor, delivery