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Labor, delivery

 

Afghanistan

• Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan
  • Intrapartum and Emergency Obstetric Care Standards [2004]

Australia

• Queensland Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines Program
  • Normal birth

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]
  • Triage and Assessment Record & Labour Partogram Toolkit

China

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

Cochrane

• Cochrane Library
  • Routine vaginal examinations for assessing progress of labour to improve outcomes for women and babies at term
  • Routine prophylactic drugs in normal labour for reducing gastric aspiration and its effects
  • Pushing/bearing down methods for the second stage of labour
  • Position in the second stage of labour for women without epidural anaesthesia
  • Oxytocin versus no treatment or delayed treatment for slow progress in the first stage of spontaneous labour
  • Maternal positions and mobility during first stage labour
  • Labour assessment programs to delay admission to labour wards
  • Intravenous fluids for reducing the duration of labour in low risk nulliparous women
  • Interventions for ketosis during labour
  • Immersion in water in labour and birth
  • High dose versus low dose oxytocin for augmentation of delayed labour
  • Fundal pressure during the second stage of labour
  • Enemas during labour
  • Effect of partogram use on outcomes for women in spontaneous labour at term
  • Early amniotomy and early oxytocin for prevention of, or therapy for, delay in first stage spontaneous labour compared with routine care
  • Continuous support for women during childbirth
  • Assessment and support during early labour for improving birth outcomes
  • Antispasmodics for labour
  • Amniotomy for shortening spontaneous labour
  • Alternative versus conventional institutional settings for birth

Ethiopia

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

India

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Adherence to evidence based care practices for childbirth before and after a quality improvement intervention in health facilities of Rajasthan, India [2014]

International

• 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
  • 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]

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Basic Delivery Kit Guide [2001]

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 Library
  • Factors that influence the provision of intrapartum and postnatal care by skilled birth attendants in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis

Nepal

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Use of the Clean Home Delivery Kit in Nepal: A Qualitative Study [2002]

Nigeria

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

Sri Lanka

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

Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Taiwan

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

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]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Intrapartum care: care of healthy women and their babies during childbirth. National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health [2014]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Intrapartum care for healthy women and babies [2017]
  • Intrapartum care [2017]
  • Intrapartum care

• Royal College of Midwives
  • Evidence based guidelines for midwifery-led care in labour: immersion in water for labour and birth [2012]

• 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 Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Approaches to Limit Intervention During Labor and Birth [2017]
  • Immersion in Water During Labor and Delivery [2016]
  • Nonmedically Indicated Early-Term Deliveries [2013]
  • Medically Indicated Late-Preterm and Early-Term Deliveries [2013]

• CDC National Center for Health Statistics
  • Births - Method of Delivery

• 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 recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience [2018]
  • Companion of choice during labour and childbirth for improved quality of care [2016]
  • 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]
  • Care in normal birth: a practical guide [1996]

Articles in journals

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Cervical dilatation patterns of ‘low-risk’ women with spontaneous labour and normal perinatal outcomes: a systematic review [2017]

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