Premature labor, preterm delivery : Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

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Premature labor, preterm delivery

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Barriers and enablers to implementing antenatal magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection guidelines: a study using the theoretical domains framework [2015]

Queensland Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines Program
- Preterm labour and birth

PLoS ONE
- The Burden of Provider-Initiated Preterm Birth and Associated Factors: Evidence from the Brazilian Multicenter Study on Preterm Birth (EMIP) [2016]

Reproductive Health
- Prevalence and risk factors related to preterm birth in Brazil [2016]

Revista de Saúde Pública
- Increase in preterm births in Brazil: review of population-based studies [2008]

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- How often are late preterm births the result of non-evidence based practices: analysis from a retrospective cohort study at two tertiary referral centres in a nationalised healthcare system [2013]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection: benefits and challenges of a systematic knowledge translation project in Canada [2015]

Institute of Health Economics
- Post-Policy Implementation Review of Rapid Fetal Fibronectin (fFN) Testing for Preterm Labour in Alberta [2016]

Perinatal Services BC
- Preterm Labour [2005]

BioMed Research International
- Increase in Preterm Birth during Demographic Transition in Chile from 1991 to 2012 [2015]

Reproductive Health
- Rate of gestational weight gain and preterm birth in relation to prepregnancy body mass indices and trimester: a follow-up study in China [2016]

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Risk factors associated with late preterm births in the underdeveloped region of China: A cohort study and systematic review [2015]

Cochrane Library
- Vitamin K prior to preterm birth for preventing neonatal periventricular haemorrhage
- Terbutaline pump maintenance therapy after threatened preterm labor for preventing preterm birth
- Specialised antenatal clinics for women with a pregnancy at high risk of preterm birth (excluding multiple pregnancy) to improve maternal and infant outcomes
- Risk scoring systems for predicting preterm birth with the aim of reducing associated adverse outcomes
- Repeat digital cervical assessment in pregnancy for identifying women at risk of preterm labour
- Relaxin for preventing preterm birth
- Relaxation therapy for preventing and treating preterm labour
- Prophylactic oral betamimetics for preventing preterm labour in singleton pregnancies
- Prophylactic antibiotics for inhibiting preterm labour with intact membranes
- Progestational agents for treating threatened or established preterm labour
- Probiotics for preventing preterm labour
- Prenatal administration of progesterone for preventing preterm birth in women considered to be at risk of preterm birth
- Phenobarbital prior to preterm birth for preventing neonatal periventricular haemorrhage
- Oxytocin receptor antagonists for inhibiting preterm labour
- Oral betamimetics for maintenance therapy after threatened preterm labour
- Nitric oxide donors for treating preterm labour
- Melatonin for women in pregnancy for neuroprotection of the fetus
- Maintenance therapy with oxytocin antagonists for inhibiting preterm birth after threatened preterm labour
- Magnesium sulphate for women at risk of preterm birth for neuroprotection of the fetus
- Magnesium sulphate for preventing preterm birth in threatened preterm labour
- Magnesium maintenance therapy for preventing preterm birth after threatened preterm labour
- Hydration for treatment of preterm labour
- Home uterine monitoring for detecting preterm labour
- Fetal fibronectin testing for reducing the risk of preterm birth
- Ethanol for preventing preterm birth in threatened preterm labor
- Elective preterm birth for fetal gastroschisis
- Effect of timing of umbilical cord clamping and other strategies to influence placental transfusion at preterm birth on maternal and infant outcomes
- Different treatment regimens of magnesium sulphate for tocolysis in women in preterm labour
- Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) inhibitors for treating preterm labour
- Cervical stitch (cerclage) for preventing preterm birth in singleton pregnancy
- Cervical stitch (cerclage) for preventing preterm birth in multiple pregnancy
- Cervical pessary for preventing preterm birth
- Cervical assessment by ultrasound for preventing preterm delivery
- Calcium channel blockers for inhibiting preterm labour and birth
- Caesarean section versus vaginal delivery for preterm birth in singletons
- Betamimetics for inhibiting preterm labour
- Bed rest in singleton pregnancies for preventing preterm birth
- Antenatal lower genital tract infection screening and treatment programs for preventing preterm delivery

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- What contributes to disparities in the preterm birth rate in European countries? [2015]

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
- Guidelines for the management of spontaneous preterm labor: identification of spontaneous preterm labor, diagnosis of preterm premature rupture of membranes, and preventive tools for preterm birth [2011]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Antenatal magnesium sulphate administration for fetal neuroprotection: a French national survey [2017]

Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
- The Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Premature Labor [2013]

High-income countries

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- The effectiveness of antenatal care programmes to reduce infant mortality and preterm birth in socially disadvantaged and vulnerable women in high-income countries: a systematic review [2011]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- The worldwide incidence of preterm birth: a systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity [2010]

Reproductive Health
- Reducing the global burden of Preterm Birth through knowledge transfer and exchange: a research agenda for engaging effectively with policymakers [2016]
- Born Too Soon: The global epidemiology of 15 million preterm births [2013]
- Born Too Soon: Preterm birth matters [2013]
- Born Too Soon: Care during pregnancy and childbirth to reduce preterm deliveries and improve health outcomes of the preterm baby [2013]
- Born Too Soon: Care before and between pregnancy to prevent preterm births: from evidence to action [2013]
- Born Too Soon: Accelerating actions for prevention and care of 15 million newborns born too soon [2013]

Vaccine
- Pathways to preterm birth: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2016]

Global Journal of Health Science
- Preterm Delivery and Psycho–Social Determinants of Health Based on World Health Organization Model in Iran: A Narrative Review [2013]

Journal of Caring Sciences
- Investigating the Prevalence of Preterm Birth in Iranian Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2017]

PLoS Medicine
- The APPLe Study: A Randomized, Community-Based, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Azithromycin for the Prevention of Preterm Birth, with Meta-Analysis [2009]

International Journal of Epidemiology
- Season and preterm birth in Norway: A cautionary tale [2015]

Ginekologia Polska
- Short cervix in twin pregnancies: current state of knowledge and the proposed scheme of treatment [2017]

Acta Médica Portuguesa
- Prevalence of Late Preterm and Early Term Birth in Portugal [2016]

Republic of Korea

Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
- Practice patterns in the management of threatened preterm labor in Korea: A multicenter retrospective study [2015]

Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
- Barriers to deferred cord clamping in preterm infants [2014]

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Provision and practice of specialist preterm labour clinics: a UK survey of practice [2014]

Health Technology Assessment
- Rapid fetal fibronectin testing to predict preterm birth in women with symptoms of premature labour: a systematic review and cost analysis [2013]

National Guideline Clearinghouse
- Preterm labour and birth. National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health [2015]

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Preterm labour and birth (Quality standard) [2016]
- Preterm labour and birth [2015]

UK National Screening Committee
- Preterm labour screening in pregnancy

United States of America

American College of Radiology
- Assessment of Gravid Cervix

American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Periviable Birth [2017]
- Magnesium Sulfate Use in Obstetrics [2016]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Effects of Maternal Age and Age-Specific Preterm Birth Rates on Overall Preterm Birth Rates — United States, 2007 and 2014 [2016]
- CDC Grand Rounds: Public Health Strategies to Prevent Preterm Birth [2016]

Journal of Perinatology
- The impact of changes in preterm birth among twins on stillbirth and infant mortality in the United States [2014]

National Guideline Clearinghouse
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria® assessment of gravid cervix [2014]

World Health Organization
- Preterm birth [2016]
- Global, regional and national levels and trends of preterm birth rates for 1990 to 2014: protocol for development of World Health Organization estimates [2016]
- WHO recommendations on interventions to improve preterm birth outcomes [2015]
- Risk factors for spontaneous and provider-initiated preterm delivery in high and low Human Development Index countries: a secondary analysis of the World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health [2014]
- Born too soon: the global action report on preterm birth [2012]

Articles in journals

BMJ Open
- Models of antenatal care to reduce and prevent preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]

Medicine
- Effects and Safety of Magnesium Sulfate on Neuroprotection [2016]

Reproductive Health
- Tocolysis for inhibiting preterm birth in extremely preterm birth, multiple gestations and in growth-restricted fetuses: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]

Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
- How to measure cervical length [2015]

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Guidelines
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Premature infants, low birth weight
- Newborn respiratory tract diseases
- Miscarriage
- Maternal and neonatal infections
- Labor, delivery
- Fetal maturation