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Australia

• BMJ Open
  • Maternal and perinatal outcomes by planned place of birth in Australia 2000 – 2012: a linked population data study [2019]

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Normal birth

Belgium

• BMJ Open
  • Nationwide population-based cohort study of uterine rupture in Belgium: results from the Belgian Obstetric Surveillance System [2016]

Brazil

• Reproductive Health
  • Good practices according to WHO’s recommendation for normal labor and birth and women’s assessment of the care received: the “birth in Brazil” national research study, 2011/2012 [2016]

Canada

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Core Competencies for Management of Labour [2011]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Labour, Delivery, and Postpartum Care for People with Physical Disabilities [2021]
  • Assisted Vaginal Birth [2019]
  • Management of Spontaneous Labour at Term in Healthy Women [2016]

• Statistics Canada
  • Births and birth rates

China

• Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  • Analyzing the Study of Using Acupuncture in Delivery in the Past Ten Years in China [2014]

Egypt

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Childbirth care in Egypt: a repeat cross-sectional analysis using Demographic and Health Surveys between 1995 and 2014 examining use of care, provider mix and immediate postpartum care content [2020]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Implementing a modified World Health Organization safe childbirth checklist in health centers of Ethiopia: a pre and post intervention study [2021]

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Factors associated with institutional delivery service utilization in Ethiopia [2016]

• Reproductive Health
  • Birth preparedness and complication readiness among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and Meta-analysis [2018]

Europe

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Wide differences in mode of delivery within Europe: risk-stratified analyses of aggregated routine data from the Euro-Peristat study [2016]

High-income countries

• PLoS Medicine
  • Variations in use of childbirth interventions in 13 high-income countries: A multinational cross-sectional study [2020]

India

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Effectiveness of the WHO SCC on improving adherence to essential practices during childbirth, in resource constrained settings [2016]
  • Adherence to evidence based care practices for childbirth before and after a quality improvement intervention in health facilities of Rajasthan, India [2014]

Indonesia

• Reproductive Health
  • Outcomes by birth setting and caregiver for low risk women in Indonesia: a systematic literature review [2019]

International

• Best Practice & Research: Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Optimal Intrapartum Care [2020]

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Diagnostic accuracy of the partograph alert and action lines to predict adverse birth outcomes: a systematic review [2019]
  • WHO model of intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience: Transforming care of women and babies for improved health and well-being [2018]
  • Respectful care during childbirth in health facilities globally: a qualitative evidence synthesis [2018]
  • Cervical dilatation patterns of ‘low-risk’ women with spontaneous labour and normal perinatal outcomes: a systematic review [2017]

• European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
  • Duration of spontaneous labour in ‘low-risk’ women with ‘normal’ perinatal outcomes: A systematic review [2018]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Mapping the Prevalence and Sociodemographic Characteristics of Women Who Deliver Alone: Evidence From Demographic and Health Surveys From 80 Countries [2016]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • FIGO Statement: Staffing requirements for delivery care, with special reference to low- and middle-income countries [2019]
  • Management of the second stage of labor [2012]

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Formative research and development of innovative tools for “Better Outcomes in Labour Difficulty” (BOLD) [2017]

• International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • ISUOG Practice Guidelines: intrapartum ultrasound [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • What matters to women during childbirth: A systematic qualitative review [2018]

• Reproductive Health
  • Effectiveness of respectful care policies for women using routine intrapartum services: a systematic review [2018]

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • Delivery care

Ireland

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Regional variation in obstetrical intervention for hospital birth in the Republic of Ireland, 2005--2009 [2012]

Japan

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • A cross-sectional survey of policies guiding second stage labor in urban Japanese hospitals, clinics and midwifery birth centers [2016]

Low and middle-income countries

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Factors that influence the provision of intrapartum and postnatal care by skilled birth attendants in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Scoping review to identify and map the health personnel considered skilled birth attendants in low-and-middle income countries from 2000–2015 [2019]

Nigeria

• Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research
  • Spousal Participation in Labor and Delivery in Nigeria [2014]

Nigeria, Uganda

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Cervical dilatation over time is a poor predictor of severe adverse birth outcomes: a diagnostic accuracy study [2018]

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Management of Labour [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Journal of Global Health
  • Time trends in facility-based and private-sector childbirth care: analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 25 sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2016 [2019]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Progression of the first stage of spontaneous labour: A prospective cohort study in two sub-Saharan African countries [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • A look back on how far to walk: Systematic review and meta-analysis of physical access to skilled care for childbirth in Sub-Saharan Africa [2017]

Taiwan

• Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • A proposed mother-friendly childbirth model for Taiwanese women and obstetricians' attitudes toward it [2015]

Tanzania

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Local adaption of intrapartum clinical guidelines, United Republic of Tanzania [2019]

Thai-Myanmar border

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Quality of intrapartum care by skilled birth attendants in a refugee clinic on the Thai-Myanmar border: a survey using WHO Safe Motherhood Needs Assessment [2015]

United Kingdom

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • What influences birth place preferences, choices and decision-making amongst healthy women with straightforward pregnancies in the UK? A qualitative evidence synthesis using a ‘best fit’ framework approach [2017]
  • Women’s birth place preferences in the United Kingdom: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the quantitative literature [2016]

• GG&C Paediatric Guidelines
  • Criteria for attendance at delivery by neonatal staff [2017]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Intrapartum care: existing medical conditions and obstetric complications [2020]
  • Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies [2019]
  • Intrapartum care for healthy women and babies [2017]
  • Intrapartum care [2017]
  • Intrapartum care

• NHS Digital
  • NHS Maternity Statistics

• Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
  • Guideline for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hyponatraemia in Labour and the Immediate Postpartum Period [2017]

• Royal College of Anaesthetists
  • Care of the critically ill woman in childbirth; enhanced maternal care 2018 [2018]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Operative Vaginal Delivery (Consent Advice) [2010]
  • Safer Childbirth Minimum Standards for the Organisation and Delivery of Care in Labour [2007]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Immersion in Water During Labor and Delivery [2014]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Medically Indicated Late-Preterm and Early-Term Deliveries [2021]
  • Avoidance of Nonmedically Indicated Early-Term Deliveries and Associated Neonatal Morbidities [2019]
  • Approaches to Limit Intervention During Labor and Birth [2019]
  • Immersion in Water During Labor and Delivery [2016]

• American Family Physician
  • Management of Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery [2015]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Births - Method of Delivery
  • Birth Data

• Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
  • Management of Labor: Are the New Guidelines Justified? [2018]
  • A Model Practice Template for Hydrotherapy in Labor and Birth [2017]

• Journal of Perinatal Education
  • Birth, Bath, and Beyond: The Science and Safety of Water Immersion During Labor and Birth [2014]

• North Carolina Medical Journal
  • The perinatal quality collaborative of North Carolina's 39 weeks project: a quality improvement program to decrease elective deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation [2014]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO labour care guide: user’s manual [2020]
  • Companion of choice during labour and childbirth for improved quality of care [2020]
  • Interregional technical consultation: learning from implementation of the WHO safe childbirth checklist: Colombo, Sri-Lanka, 28-30 August 2017 [2019]
  • WHO recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience [2018]
  • Definition of skilled health personnel providing care during childbirth: the 2018 joint statement by WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, ICM, ICN, FIGO and IPA [2018]
  • WHO safe childbirth checklist collaboration evaluation report [2017]
  • WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Implementation Guide [2015]
  • WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist [2015]
  • Recommendations for Augmentation of Labour [2015]
  • WHO recommendations for augmentation of labour [2014]
  • WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist
  • Births attended by skilled health personnel - Data by country

{Related topics}

• Guidelines
  • Third stage of labor
  • Shoulder dystocia
  • Premature rupture of membranes
  • Premature labor, preterm delivery
  • Postpartum (puerperium)
  • Obstetrics, perinatology
  • Obstetrical forceps, vacuum extraction
  • Obstetrical analgesia and anesthesia
  • Neonatology
  • Maternal and neonatal infections
  • Labor, delivery
  • Induction of labor
  • Home birth
  • Fetal monitoring
  • Fetal distress
  • Episiotomy, perineal trauma
  • Dystocia
  • Cesarean section
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Breech presentation
  • Breastfeeding