Obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, sexual and reproductive health

Pregnancy

Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

 

Antenatal care

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Antenatal care in Australian general practice [2016]
    • Antenatal care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women [2014]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Antenatal visits
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Non-urgent referral for antenatal care
• Bangladesh
  • PLoS ONE
    • Determinants of frequency and contents of antenatal care visits in Bangladesh: Assessing the extent of compliance with the WHO recommendations [2019]
    • Maternal Pregnancy Intention and Professional Antenatal Care Utilization in Bangladesh: A Nationwide Population-Based Survey [2016]
• Belgium, Netherlands
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Antenatal care use in urban areas in two European countries: Predisposing, enabling and pregnancy-related determinants in Belgium and the Netherlands [2016]
• Benin
  • Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association
    • Women’s enlightenment and early antenatal care initiation are determining factors for the use of eight or more antenatal visits in Benin: further analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey [2020]
• Brazil
  • Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
    • Infant mortality and prenatal care: contributions of the clinic in the light of Canguilhem and Foucault [2012]
• Canada
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Population and Public Health Prenatal Care Pathway [2014]
• China
  • BMC Public Health
    • Current status of antenatal care of pregnant women—8 provinces in China, 2018 [2021]
• Colombia
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Individual and local level factors and antenatal care use in Colombia: a multilevel analysis [2014]
• Denmark
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Implementation, Mechanisms and Context of the MAMAACT Intervention to Reduce Ethnic and Social Disparity in Stillbirth and Infant Health [2021]
    • Universal or Targeted Antenatal Care for Immigrant Women? Mapping and Qualitative Analysis of Practices in Denmark [2019]
• East Africa
  • Scientific Reports
    • The effects of ANC follow up on essential newborn care practices in east Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• Eastern Europe, Central Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Improvement of the antenatal care in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Meeting report (27–28 April 2017) [2017]
• Egypt
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Temporal and regional variations in use, equity and quality of antenatal care in Egypt: a repeat cross-sectional analysis using Demographic and Health Surveys [2019]
• Ethiopia
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Trends and determinants of an acceptable antenatal care coverage in Ethiopia, evidence from 2005-2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey; Multivariate decomposition analysis [2020]
    • Impact of antenatal care on neonatal mortality among neonates in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • The effect of antenatal care on use of institutional delivery service and postnatal care in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The impact of antenatal care on under-five mortality in Ethiopia: a difference-in-differences analysis [2021]
    • Prevalence and factors associated with antenatal care utilization in Ethiopia: an evidence from demographic health survey 2016 [2020]
    • Male partner attendance at antenatal care and adherence to antenatal care guidelines: secondary analysis of 2011 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data [2018]
    • Quality of antenatal care services and completion of four or more antenatal care visits in Ethiopia: a finding based on a demographic and health survey [2017]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Antenatal care strengthening for improved quality of care in Jimma, Ethiopia: an effectiveness study [2015]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Trends and Determinants of Antenatal Care Service Use in Ethiopia between 2000 and 2016 [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The effect of antenatal care on perinatal outcomes in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
    • Survival time to first antenatal care visit and its predictors among women in Ethiopia [2021]
    • Determinants of change in timely first antenatal booking among pregnant women in Ethiopia: A decomposition analysis [2021]
    • Prevalence and associated factors of delayed first antenatal care booking among reproductive age women in Ethiopia; a multilevel analysis of EDHS 2016 data [2020]
    • Factors affecting utilization of antenatal care in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
    • Timing and adequate attendance of antenatal care visits among women in Ethiopia [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Timing of first antenatal care visits and number of items of antenatal care contents received and associated factors in Ethiopia: multilevel mixed effects analysis [2021]
  • Systematic Reviews
    • Association between pregnancy intention and late initiation of antenatal care among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • What is the effectiveness of antenatal care? (Supplement) [2005]
    • What is the efficacy/effectiveness of antenatal care and the financial and organizational implications? [2003]
• Georgia
  • PLoS ONE
    • The impact of antenatal care utilization on admissions to neonatal intensive care units and perinatal mortality in Georgia [2020]
• Ghana
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of stillbirths in Ghana: does quality of antenatal care matter? [2016]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Prevalence and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Eight or More Antenatal Care Contacts in Ghana: Findings from 2019 Population-Based Data [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Client Factors Affect Provider Adherence to Clinical Guidelines during First Antenatal Care [2016]
• Guinea
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of antenatal care and skilled birth attendance services utilization among childbearing women in Guinea: evidence from the 2018 Guinea Demographic and Health Survey data [2021]
• High-income countries
  • JMIR mHealth and uHealth
    • Mobile Phone–Based Behavioral Interventions in Pregnancy to Promote Maternal and Fetal Health in High-Income Countries: Systematic Review [2020]
    • The Usability and Effectiveness of Mobile Health Technology–Based Lifestyle and Medical Intervention Apps Supporting Health Care During Pregnancy: Systematic Review [2018]
• India
  • Health Services Research
    • Long-term trend in socioeconomic inequalities and geographic variation in the utilization of antenatal care service in India between 1998 and 2015 [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Generating evidence on screening, diagnosis and management of non-communicable diseases during pregnancy; a scoping review of current gap and practice in India with a comparison of Asian context [2021]
• International
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • What matters to women: a systematic scoping review to identify the processes and outcomes of antenatal care provision that are important to healthy pregnant women [2015]
    • Antenatal care for healthy pregnant women: a mapping of interventions from existing guidelines to inform the development of new WHO guidance on antenatal care [2015]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Implementation of the new WHO antenatal care model for a positive pregnancy experience: a monitoring framework [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Developing measures for WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience: a conceptual framework and scoping review [2019]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Integrated Person-Centered Health Care for All Women During Pregnancy: Implementing World Health Organization Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregnancy Experience [2017]
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • Development of the WHO Antenatal Care Recommendations Adaptation Toolkit: a standardised approach for countries [2020]
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
    • Building a Digital Tool for the Adoption of the World Health Organization’s Antenatal Care Recommendations: Methodological Intersection of Evidence, Clinical Logic, and Digital Technology [2020]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Early antenatal care visit: a systematic analysis of regional and global levels and trends of coverage from 1990 to 2013 [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • A systematic review of providers’ experiences of facilitating group antenatal care [2021]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Antenatal care
• Japan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Regional socio-environmental characteristics associated with inadequate prenatal care during pregnancy: an ecological study of 47 prefectures in Japan [2021]
• Kenya
  • Reproductive Health
    • Pregnancy wantedness, frequency and timing of antenatal care visit among women of childbearing age in Kenya [2016]
• Lebanon
  • Conflict and Health
    • An assessment of antenatal care among Syrian refugees in Lebanon [2015]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Barriers and enablers to integrating maternal and child health services to antenatal care in low and middle income countries [2016]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Not just a number: examining coverage and content of antenatal care in low-income and middle-income countries [2018]
  • Global Pediatric Health
    • Prevalence of Eight or More Antenatal Care Contacts: Findings From Multi-Country Nationally Representative Data [2021]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Inequalities in antenatal care coverage and quality: an analysis from 63 low and middle-income countries using the ANCq content-qualified coverage indicator [2021]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • A new content-qualified antenatal care coverage indicator: Development and validation of a score using national health surveys in low- and middle-income countries [2021]
    • Timing and number of antenatal care contacts in low and middle-income countries: Analysis in the Countdown to 2030 priority countries [2020]
  • Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
    • Building a Global Evidence Base to Guide Policy and Implementation for Group Antenatal Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Key Principles and Research Framework Recommendations from the Global Group Antenatal Care Collaborative [2020]
  • Seminars in Perinatology
    • Trends of antenatal care during pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries: Findings from the global network maternal and newborn health registry [2019]
• Malaysia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Antenatal Care Utilisation and Content between Low-Risk and High-Risk Pregnant Women [2016]
    • Assessing the Extent of Adherence to the Recommended Antenatal Care Content in Malaysia: Room for Improvement [2015]
• Mauritania
  • BMC Public Health
    • Sub-regional disparities in the use of antenatal care service in Mauritania: findings from nationally representative demographic and health surveys (2011–2015) [2021]
• Mesoamerica
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Coverage and timing of antenatal care among poor women in 6 Mesoamerican countries [2016]
• Mozambique
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Challenges and opportunities for implementing evidence-based antenatal care in Mozambique: a qualitative study [2015]
• Myanmar
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Country compliance with WHO-recommended antenatal care guidelines: equity analysis of the 2015–2016 Demography and Health Survey in Myanmar [2020]
• Nepal
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Timing of First Antenatal Care (ANC) and Inequalities in Early Initiation of ANC in Nepal [2017]
• New Zealand
  • New Zealand College of Midwives
    • Assessment and promotion of fetal wellbeing during pregnancy [2021]
• Nigeria
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Sub-national analysis and determinants of numbers of antenatal care contacts in Nigeria: assessing the compliance with the WHO recommended standard guidelines [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Timing of first antenatal care contact, its associated factors and state-level analysis in Nigeria: a cross-sectional assessment of compliance with the WHO guidelines [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Patterns and Predictors of Insufficient Antenatal Care Utilization in Nigeria over a Decade: A Pooled Data Analysis Using Demographic and Health Surveys [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and factors associated with underutilization of antenatal care services in Nigeria: A comparative study of rural and urban residences based on the 2013 Nigeria demographic and health survey [2018]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Assessment of quality of antenatal care services in Nigeria: evidence from a population-based survey [2015]
• Norway
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
    • Prenatal health of immigrant women in Norway – an exploratory literature review [2021]
• Peru
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Prevalence and Determinants of Adequate Compliance with Antenatal Care in Peru [2021]
• Philippines
  • BMJ Open
    • Reduction in inequality in antenatal-care use and persistence of inequality in skilled birth attendance in the Philippines from 1993 to 2008 [2013]
• Rwanda
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Person-centered antenatal care and associated factors in Rwanda: a secondary analysis of program data [2021]
• South Africa
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Implementing antenatal care recommendations, South Africa [2021]
• South Asia
  • BMJ Open
    • Do women’s empowerment and socioeconomic status predict the adequacy of antenatal care? A cross-sectional study in five South Asian countries [2021]
• South-East Asia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Urban-rural disparities of antenatal care in South East Asia: a case study in the Philippines and Indonesia [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BioMed Research International
    • Noncompliance with the WHO's Recommended Eight Antenatal Care Visits among Pregnant Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis [2021]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Examining barriers to healthcare access and utilization of antenatal care services: evidence from demographic health surveys in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Temporal relationship between Women’s empowerment and utilization of antenatal care services: lessons from four National Surveys in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
    • Determinants of completing recommended antenatal care utilization in sub-Saharan from 2006 to 2018: evidence from 36 countries using Demographic and Health Surveys [2021]
    • Interventions to improve adherence to antenatal and postnatal care regimens among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Determinants of antenatal care utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2019]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • Explaining socioeconomic disparities and gaps in the use of antenatal care services in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The impact of antenatal care on neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Delivery of integrated infectious disease control services under the new antenatal care guidelines: a service availability and readiness assessment of health facilities in Tanzania [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Twelve-year persistence of inequalities in antenatal care utilisation among women in Tanzania: a decomposition analysis of population-based cross-sectional surveys [2021]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • Do antenatal care visits always contribute to facility-based delivery in Tanzania? A study of repeated cross-sectional data [2015]
  • Tropical Medicine and Health
    • Trends and factors associated with the utilisation of antenatal care services during the Millennium Development Goals era in Tanzania [2020]
• United Arab Emirates
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Antenatal Care Initiation Among Pregnant Women in the United Arab Emirates: The Mutaba'ah Study [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Deprivation and poor psychosocial support are key determinants of late antenatal presentation and poor fetal outcomes-a combined retrospective and prospective study [2015]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Antenatal care - Timing of first antenatal appointment [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Referral and delivery of antenatal care [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Peer support [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Number of antenatal appointments [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Involving partners [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Information provision [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Content of antenatal appointments [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Approaches to information provision [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Antenatal classes [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Accessing antenatal care [2021]
    • Antenatal care (Quality standard) [2021]
    • Antenatal care [2021]
    • Antenatal care for uncomplicated pregnancies [2019]
    • Pregnancy and complex social factors: A model for service provision for pregnant women with complex social factors [2010]
• United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • The Prenatal Visit [2018]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Group Prenatal Care [2018]
  • American Family Physician
    • Update on Prenatal Care [2014]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Variation in guideline-based prenatal care in a commercially insured population [2021]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Digital Adaptation Kit for Antenatal Care: Operational requirements for implementing WHO recommendations in digital systems [2021]
    • WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience [2016]
    • WHO Statement on antenatal care [2011]
    • WHO Antenatal Care Randomized Trial: Manual for the Implementation of the new Model [2002]
    • Antenatal Care
• Zambia
  • Ministry of Health Zambia
    • ANC guidelines for a positive pregnancy experience [2019]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Autoimmune diseases in pregnancy

• Brazil
  • Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
    • Myasthenia gravis during pregnancy: what care should be taken? [2021]
• Canada
  • Canadian Rheumatology Association
    • Canadian Rheumatology Association Recommendations for the Assessment and Monitoring of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus [2018]
• Developing countries
  • Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
    • Pregnancy and lupus nephritis in developing countries: A systematic review [2020]
• Europe
  • European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology
    • Extended report: EULAR recommendations for women's health and the management of family planning, assisted reproduction, pregnancy and menopause in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and/or antiphospholipid syndrome [2017]
• Germany
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Recommendations of the AGG (Section Maternal Disease) for Myasthenia Gravis in Pregnancy [2021]
• International
  • Autoimmunity Reviews
    • Pregnancy outcome predictors in antiphospholipid syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Drugs
    • Intrauterine Exposure to Biologics in Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases: A Systematic Review [2020]
• Mexico
  • Reumatología Clínica
    • Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pregnancy in women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases of the Mexican College of Rheumatology. Part II [2015]
    • Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pregnancy in women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases of the Mexican College of Rheumatology. Part I [2015]
• Spain
  • Reumatología Clínica
    • Pregnancy control in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus/antiphospholipid syndrome. Part 2: Pregnancy follow-up [2021]
    • Pregnancy control in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome. Part 1: Infertility, ovarian preservation and preconception assessment. Consensus Document of the Spanish Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SEGO), the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) and the Spanish Society of Rheumatology (SER) [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Lupus Science & Medicine
    • Outcomes of pregnancy and associated factors in sub-Saharan African women with systemic lupus erythematosus: a scoping review [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • GG&C Paediatric Guidelines
    • Anti-Ro & Anti-La antibodies : Guideline for the management of babies born to mothers with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and other autoimmune disorders [2019]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Immune Modulating Therapies in Pregnancy and Lactation [2019]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Miscarriage

Bleeding in pregnancy, placenta diseases

• Australasia
  • Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
    • Placenta
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Peripartum hysterectomy in Australia: a working paper using the National Hospital Morbidity Database 2003–04 to 2013–14 [2016]
  • Better Safer Care
    • Antepartum haemorrhage: assessment and management
  • Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
    • A practical guide to placental examination for forensic pathologists [2020]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Updated Australian consensus statement on management of inherited bleeding disorders in pregnancy [2019]
    • A consensus statement on the management of pregnancy and delivery in women who are carriers of or have bleeding disorders [2009]
  • National Blood Authority
    • Patient Blood Management Guidelines: Module 5 Obstetrics and Maternity [2015]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Diagnosis and Management of Placenta Previa [2020]
    • Screening, Diagnosis, and Management of Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorders [2019]
    • Guidelines for the Management of Vasa Previa [2017]
• China
  • BMJ Open
    • Incidence, trends and risk factors for obstetric massive blood transfusion in China from 2012 to 2019: an observational study [2021]
• Denmark
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • A cost-minimisation analysis of performing point-of-care ultrasonography on patients with vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy in general practice: a decision analytical model [2022]
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Velamentous Cord Insertion and Vasa Previa [2018]
• Ethiopia
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • A Literature Review of Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorder: The Place of Expectant Management in Ethiopian Setup [2020]
• Europe
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Management of major obstetric hemorrhage prior to peripartum hysterectomy and outcomes across nine European countries [2021]
    • Epidemiological analysis of peripartum hysterectomy across nine European countries [2020]
• India
  • International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science
    • Contemporary issues in the management of abnormal placentation during pregnancy in developing nations: An Indian perspective [2013]
• International
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO consensus guidelines on placenta accreta spectrum disorders: Prenatal diagnosis and screening [2018]
    • FIGO consensus guidelines on placenta accreta spectrum disorders: Nonconservative surgical management [2018]
    • FIGO consensus guidelines on placenta accreta spectrum disorders: Introduction [2018]
    • FIGO consensus guidelines on placenta accreta spectrum disorders: Epidemiology [2018]
    • FIGO consensus guidelines on placenta accreta spectrum disorders: Conservative management [2018]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Pro forma for ultrasound reporting in suspected abnormally invasive placenta (AIP): an international consensus [2016]
  • Vaccine
    • Antenatal bleeding: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2017]
• Italy
  • PLoS ONE
    • Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women with placenta accreta spectrum in Italy: A prospective population-based cohort study [2021]
• Norway, Sweden
  • European Journal of Epidemiology
    • Placental abruption and long-term maternal cardiovascular disease mortality: a population-based registry study in Norway and Sweden [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Management of unexplained vaginal bleeding in pregnancy [2021]
  • NHS England
    • Specialised maternity care for patients (child bearing age) diagnosed with abnormally invasive placenta [2020]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Vasa Praevia: Diagnosis and Management [2018]
    • Placenta Praevia and Placenta Accreta: Diagnosis and Management [2018]
    • Management of Inherited Bleeding Disorders in Pregnancy [2017]
    • Blood Transfusions in Obstetrics [2015]
    • Antepartum Haemorrhage [2011]
  • Royal College of Pathologists
    • Tissue pathway for histopathological examination of the placenta [2019]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Placenta Accreta Spectrum [2018]
  • American College of Radiology
    • Second and Third Trimester Bleeding
  • Expert Review of Hematology
    • The clinical management of factor XI deficiency in pregnant women [2020]
  • Modern Pathology
    • Classification and reporting guidelines for the pathology diagnosis of placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorders: recommendations from an expert panel [2020]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Special Report of the Society for Maternal- Fetal Medicine Placenta Accreta Spectrum Ultrasound Marker Task Force: Consensus on definition of markers and approach to the ultrasound examination in pregnancies at risk for placenta accreta spectrum [2021]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Consult Series #44: Management of bleeding in the late preterm period [2018]
    • #37: Diagnosis and management of vasa previa [2015]
    • Placenta accreta [2010]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postpartum hemorrhage
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Varicose veins
• Brazil
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
    • Brazilian Cardiology Society Statement for Management of Pregnancy and Family Planning in Women with Heart Disease – 2020 [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Impact of Cardiac Diseases during Pregnancy on Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Brazil [2015]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Pregnancy-related cardiovascular risk indicators [2019]
• Europe
  • European Society of Cardiology
    • 2018 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy [2018]
    • Pregnancy in women with congenital heart disease [2015]
    • Genetic counselling and testing in cardiomyopathies: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases [2010]
• Germany
  • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • Ivabradine use in pregnant women—treatment indications and pregnancy outcome: an evaluation of the German Embryotox database [2021]
• Germany, Hungary, Japan
  • Circulation Journal
    • Frequency of Miscarriage/Stillbirth and Terminations of Pregnancy Among Women With Congenital Heart Disease in Germany, Hungary and Japan [2016]
• International
  • European Heart Journal
    • Management of valvular disease in pregnancy: a global perspective [2015]
  • International Heart Journal
    • Worldwide Incidence of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Overall Maternal Mortality [2019]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Pregnancies in Women With Congenital Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis [2021]
  • Pharmacology Research & Perspectives
    • Adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with first-trimester exposure to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy and neonatal outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
    • Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in women with cardiovascular disease: position statement from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) [2021]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Methods and considerations concerning cardiac output measurement in pregnant women: recommendations of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics [2019]
    • Functional hemodynamic testing in pregnancy: recommendations of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics [2018]
    • Assessment of venous hemodynamics and volume homeostasis during pregnancy: recommendations of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics [2018]
    • Assessment of arterial function in pregnancy: recommendations of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics [2017]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Resuscitation for the Pregnant Women [2014]
• Japan
  • Circulation Journal
    • Pregnancy-Related Acute Myocardial Infarction in Japan [2013]
    • Guidelines for Indication and Management of Pregnancy and Delivery in Women with Heart Disease (JCS 2010): digest version [2012]
• Netherlands
  • Netherlands Heart Journal
    • Maternal mortality due to cardiovascular disease in the Netherlands: a 21-year experience [2020]
• South Africa
  • BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
    • The burden of antenatal heart disease in South Africa: a systematic review [2012]
  • Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
    • The importance of cardiovascular pathology contributing to maternal death: Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths in South Africa, 2011–2013 [2016]
• Sweden
  • Journal of Cardiac Failure
    • Heart Failure in Late Pregnancy and Postpartum: Incidence and Long-Term Mortality in Sweden From 1997 to 2010 [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • BJA Education
    • Adult congenital heart disease and pregnancy [2018]
  • Clinical Medicine
    • Tachycardia in pregnancy: when to worry? [2021]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Maternal Collapse in Pregnancy and the Puerperium [2019]
• United States
  • American College of Cardiology
    • Summary of Updated Recommendations for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women [2020]
    • Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy [2018]
  • American Heart Association
    • Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Unique Opportunities for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2021]
    • Promoting Risk Identification and Reduction of Cardiovascular Disease in Women Through Collaboration With Obstetricians and Gynecologists: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2018]
    • Management of Pregnancy in Patients With Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association [2017]
    • Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2015]
  • American Journal of Cardiology
    • Assessing Pregnancy, Gestational Complications, and Co-morbidities in Women With Congenital Heart Defects (Data from ICD-9-CM Codes in 3 US Surveillance Sites) [2020]
  • Circulation
    • Cardiovascular Management in Pregnancy: Antithrombotic Agents and Antiplatelet Agents [2015]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Reducing Cardiovascular Maternal Mortality by Extending Medicaid for Postpartum Women [2021]
    • Improving Cardiovascular Workforce Competencies in Cardio-Obstetrics: Current Challenges and Future Directions [2020]
    • Receipt of American Heart Association–Recommended Preconception Health Care Among Privately Insured Women With Congenital Heart Defects, 2007–2013 [2019]
  • Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
    • The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Consensus Statement on the Management of Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy

Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection: pregnancy, newborn, breastfeeding

• Mexico
  • BMC Public Health
    • Maternal mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico: a preliminary analysis during the first year [2021]

Digestive system diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Reflux (heartburn)
    • Haemorrhoids
    • Constipation
• Canada
  • Canadian Association of Gastroenterology
    • The Toronto Consensus Statements for the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Pregnancy [2016]
  • Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    • Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Pregnancy: A Practical Approach to New Guidelines [2016]
    • Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Varies Widely: A Need for Further Education [2016]
    • Management of the pregnant inflammatory bowel disease patient on antitumour necrosis factor therapy: State of the art and future directions [2014]
• Europe
  • European Crohn´s and Colitis Organisation
    • Third European Evidence-based Consensus on Diagnosis and Management of Ulcerative Colitis. Part 1: Definitions, Diagnosis, Extra-intestinal Manifestations, Pregnancy, Cancer Surveillance, Surgery, and Ileo-anal Pouch Disorders [2017]
    • Second European Evidenced-Based Consensus on Reproduction and Pregnancy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease [2015]
• France
  • PLoS ONE
    • Drug use for gastrointestinal symptoms during pregnancy: A French nationwide study 2010–2018 [2021]
• Germany
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Management of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: Recommendations of the Working Group on Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine – Section on Maternal Disorders [2021]
    • Care of Women with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Chronic IBD) During Pregnancy: Recommendations of the Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine Working Group of the DGGG [2021]
• India
  • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
    • Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver—Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India Position Statement on Management of Liver Diseases in Pregnancy [2019]
• International
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Pharmacological interventions for treating intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy [2020]
• Italy
  • Digestive and Liver Disease
    • AISF position paper on liver transplantation and pregnancy [2016]
    • AISF position paper on liver disease and pregnancy [2016]
• Sweden
  • Hepatology Communications
    • Outcomes of Pregnancy in Mothers With Cirrhosis: A National Population-Based Cohort Study of 1.3 Million Pregnancies [2018]
• Switzerland
  • Digestion
    • Update on the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy: management strategy based on best evidence and European guidelines [2014]
  • British Society of Gastroenterology
    • Standards for the provision of antenatal care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease: guidance endorsed by the British Society of Gastroenterology and the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society [2021]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Management of heartburn in pregnancy [2021]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Obstetric Cholestasis [2011]
• United States
  • American College of Gastroenterology
    • ACG Clinical Guideline: Liver Disease and Pregnancy [2016]
  • American Gastroenterological Association
    • American Gastroenterological Association Institute - Technical Review on the Use of Gastrointestinal Medications in Pregnancy [2006]
    • American Gastroenterological Association Institute - Medical Position Statement on the Use of Gastrointestinal Medications in Pregnancy [2006]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #53: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy [2021]
  • Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
    • Guidelines for the Use of Laparoscopy during Pregnancy [2017]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, hyperemesis gravidarum

Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis
• Australia, New Zealand
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study [2015]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Venous Thromboembolism and Antithrombotic Therapy in Pregnancy [2014]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Amniotic fluid embolism as a cause of maternal mortality in China between 1996 and 2013: a population-based retrospective study [2016]
  • Chinese Medical Journal
    • Interpretation of Chinese expert consensus on diagnosis and management of amniotic fluid embolism [2020]
  • Intractable & Rare Diseases Research
    • Amniotic Fluid Embolism (AFE) in China: Are maternal mortality and morbidity preventable? [2014]
• Europe
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Venous thromboembolism in women: a specific reproductive health risk [2013]
• Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Current Vascular Pharmacology
    • Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Adequacy of Prophylaxis in High Risk Pregnancy in the Arabian Gulf [2016]
• International
  • Advances in Therapy
    • Safety and Efficacy of Enoxaparin in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Postpartum venous thromboembolism prophylaxis may cause more harm than benefit: a critical analysis of international guidelines through an evidence-based lens [2018]
  • BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
    • Critical appraisal of international guidelines for the prevention and treatment of pregnancy-associated venous thromboembolism: a systematic review [2019]
  • Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis
    • Guidance for the treatment and prevention of obstetric-associated venous thromboembolism [2016]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Thromboprophylaxis during the Pregnancy-Puerperal Cycle [2020]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Venous Thromboprophylaxis in Pregnancy [2013]
• Japan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • A retrospective cohort study using a national surveillance questionnaire to investigate the characteristics of maternal venous thromboembolism in Japan in 2018 [2021]
  • Circulation Journal
    • Increase in Maternal Death-Related Venous Thromboembolism During Pregnancy in Japan (2010–2013) [2015]
  • Neurologia medico-chirurgica
    • Antithrombotic Therapy for Pregnant Women [2013]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism, 2nd Edition: Korean Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines [2014]
• Sweden
  • BMJ Open
    • Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study [2015]
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology: X
    • Duration of labor among women with thromboembolic events: A Swedish register study [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Incidence of and risk factors for thromboembolism during pregnancy and postpartum: A 10-year nationwide population-based study [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Risk factors for venous thromboembolism in pregnancy [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Incidence of First Venous Thromboembolism in and around Pregnancy Using Linked Primary and Secondary Care Data: A Population Based Cohort Study from England and Comparative Meta-Analysis [2013]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium: Acute Management [2015]
    • Reducing the Risk of Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium [2015]
• United States
  • American College of Chest Physicians
    • VTE, thrombophilia, antithrombotic therapy, and pregnancy: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines [2012]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Proposed diagnostic criteria for the case definition of amniotic fluid embolism in research studies [2016]
  • American Society of Hematology
    • American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: venous thromboembolism in the context of pregnancy [2018]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Venous Thromboembolism [2016]
  • Seminars in Perinatology
    • Venous thromboembolism as a cause of severe maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States [2019]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Checklist for initial management of amniotic fluid embolism [2021]
    • Amniotic fluid embolism: diagnosis and management [2016]
  • Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
    • The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Consensus Statement on the Anesthetic Management of Pregnant and Postpartum Women Receiving Thromboprophylaxis or Higher Dose Anticoagulants [2018]
  • Thrombosis Research
    • Developing a Model for Predicting Venous Thromboembolism in Obese Pregnant Women in a National Study [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy

Environmental exposures in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Fertility Society of Australia
    • The effects of environmental chemicals on fertility and fecundity [2021]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australasian College of Physicians
    • The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Guide to Pregnancy and Work [2017]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Ionizing Radiation in Pregnant Women: A Review of the Safety and Guidelines [2015]
  • Environmental Health
    • Prenatal exposure to legacy contaminants and visual acuity in Canadian infants: a maternal-infant research on environmental chemicals study (MIREC-ID) [2020]
  • New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
    • A Critique of Risk Disclosure as the Solution for Minimizing Toxic Exposures in Pregnancy: The Case of Nail Salon Workers [2017]
• China
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
    • Maternal exposure to O3 and NO2 may increase the risk of newborn congenital hypothyroidism: a national data-based analysis in China [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Patterns and Determinants of Essential and Toxic Elements in Chinese Women at Mid-Pregnancy, Late Pregnancy, and Lactation [2021]
• Costa Rica
  • International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
    • Prenatal pesticide exposure and respiratory health outcomes in the first year of life: Results from the Infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) study [2020]
• Denmark
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • Prenatal Exposure to Nitrate from Drinking Water and Markers of Fetal Growth Restriction: A Population-Based Study of Nearly One Million Danish-Born Children [2021]
• Europe
  • Environment International
    • Early-life environmental exposure determinants of child behavior in Europe: A longitudinal, population-based study [2021]
    • Prenatal and postnatal exposure to air pollution and emotional and aggressive symptoms in children from 8 European birth cohorts [2019]
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • European Birth Cohorts for Environmental Health Research [2012]
  • European Society of Cardiology
    • Occupational radiation exposure in the electrophysiology laboratory with a focus on personnel with reproductive potential and during pregnancy: A European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) consensus document endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) [2017]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Intrauterine Exposures and Maternal Health Status during Pregnancy in Relation to Later Child Health: A Review of Pregnancy Cohort Studies in Europe [2021]
    • Adverse Birth Outcomes Related to NO2 and PM Exposure: European Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • Science of The Total Environment
    • Prenatal exposure to a wide range of environmental chemicals and child behaviour between 3 and 7 years of age – An exposome-based approach in 5 European cohorts [2021]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: standard operating procedures (2018) [2018]
    • Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: human biomonitoring survey (2018) [2018]
• France
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Maternal Ambient Exposure to Atmospheric Pollutants during Pregnancy and Offspring Term Birth Weight in the Nationwide ELFE Cohort [2021]
• Germany
  • RöFo
    • Prenatal radiation exposure in diagnostic and interventional radiology [2021]
• International
  • Aging
    • Association between prenatal air pollution exposure and risk of hypospadias in offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies [2021]
  • BMJ
    • Associations between high temperatures in pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirths: systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
    • Association of BPA exposure during pregnancy with risk of preterm birth and changes in gestational age: A meta-analysis and systematic review [2021]
  • Environment International
    • Wildfire exposure during pregnancy and the risk of adverse birth outcomes: A systematic review [2021]
    • Gestational triclosan exposure and infant birth weight: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
    • Phthalate exposure and female reproductive and developmental outcomes: a systematic review of the human epidemiological evidence [2019]
  • Epidemiologia e Prevenzione
    • Environmental and individual exposure and the risk of congenital anomalies: a review of recent epidemiological evidence [2018]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Congenital anomalies in the offspring of occupationally exposed mothers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using expert assessment for occupational exposures [2019]
  • Intergrowth-21st
    • A rapid questionnaire assessment of environmental exposures to pregnant women in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project [2013]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics opinion on reproductive health impacts of exposure to toxic environmental chemicals [2015]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prenatal Environmental Metal Exposure and Preterm Birth: A Scoping Review [2021]
    • Early-Life Exposure to Environmental Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review of Available Evidence [2021]
    • In Utero Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution during Pregnancy: Impact on Birth Weight and Health through the Life Course [2020]
    • WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review on Environmental Noise and Adverse Birth Outcomes [2017]
  • Nutrients
    • A Systematic Review of Bisphenol A from Dietary and Non-Dietary Sources during Pregnancy and Its Possible Connection with Fetal Growth Restriction: Investigating Its Potential Effects and the Window of Fetal Vulnerability [2021]
  • Reproductive Toxicology
    • Heightened Susceptibility: A Review of How Pregnancy and Chemical Exposures Influence Maternal Health [2020]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Air pollution and pregnancy outcomes based on exposure evaluation using a land use regression model: A systematic review [2021]
• Italy
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Association between Exposure to Particulate Matter during Pregnancy and Multidimensional Development in School-Age Children: A Cross-Sectional Study in Italy [2021]
• Japan
  • Environment International
    • Exposure to heavy metals modifies optimal gestational weight gain: A large nationally representative cohort of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
    • Association of prenatal exposure to cadmium with neurodevelopment in children at 2 years of age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
  • European Journal of Epidemiology
    • Mortality among individuals exposed to atomic bomb radiation in utero: 1950–2012 [2021]
  • Science of The Total Environment
    • Associations between prenatal exposure to volatile organic compounds and neurodevelopment in 12-month-old children: The Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS) [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Maternal Exposure to Housing Renovation During Pregnancy and Risk of Offspring with Congenital Malformation: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2019]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Environment International
    • Extreme heat, preterm birth, and stillbirth: A global analysis across 14 lower-middle income countries [2022]
• Malawi
  • Malawi Medical Journal
    • Maternal biomass smoke exposure and birth weight in Malawi: Analysis of data from the 2010 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey [2017]
• Oman
  • Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
    • Ergonomic Stressors Among Pregnant Healthcare Workers: Impact on pregnancy outcomes and recommended safety practices [2021]
• Republic of Korea
  • Environment International
    • Effect of heat waves and fine particulate matter on preterm births in Korea from 2010 to 2016 [2021]
  • Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine
    • Reproductive toxic agents in work environments and related cases in Korea [2020]
• Suriname
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Association of Mercury Exposure and Maternal Sociodemographics on Birth Outcomes of Indigenous and Tribal Women in Suriname [2021]
• Sweden
  • BMJ Open
    • Occupational exposure to inorganic particles during pregnancy and birth outcomes: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden [2019]
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
    • Occupational exposure to organic particles and combustion products during pregnancy and birth outcome in a nationwide cohort study in Sweden [2019]
  • Science of The Total Environment
    • Occupational exposure to whole body vibrations and birth outcomes – A nationwide cohort study of Swedish women [2021]
• Taiwan
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Air Pollution during Pregnancy and Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorder in Taiwan [2021]
• Thailand
  • Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
    • Exposure to ambient particulate matter and biomass burning during pregnancy: associations with birth weight in Thailand [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Chemical Exposures During Pregnancy: Dealing with Potential, but Unproven, Risks to Child Health [2013]
  • Royal College of Radiologists
    • Radiation and the early fetus [2013]
    • Protection of Pregnant Patients during Diagnostic Medical Exposures to Ionising Radiation [2009]
    • Pregnancy and Work in Diagnostic Imaging Departments, Second edition [2009]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Childhood and Pregnancy: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2019]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Reducing Prenatal Exposure to Toxic Environmental Agents [2021]
    • Air Travel During Pregnancy [2018]
    • Lead Screening During Pregnancy and Lactation [2012]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
    • Exposure to toxic metals and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the risk of preeclampsia and preterm birth in the United States: A review [2021]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Guidelines for the identification and management of lead exposure in pregnant and lactating women [2010]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Maternal Exposure to Disinfection By-Products and Risk of Hypospadias in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (2000–2005) [2020]
    • The Cumulative Risk of Chemical and Nonchemical Exposures on Birth Outcomes in Healthy Women: The Fetal Growth Study [2019]
    • Maternal Occupational Oil Mist Exposure and Birth Defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–2011 [2019]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Association of Air Pollution and Heat Exposure With Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight, and Stillbirth in the US [2020]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Projected Changes in Maternal Heat Exposure During Early Pregnancy and the Associated Congenital Heart Defect Burden in the United States [2019]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Organophosphate exposures during pregnancy and child neurodevelopment: Recommendations for essential policy reforms [2018]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women: Screening [2019]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Mercury and human health: educational course [2021]
    • Guideline for clinical management of exposure to lead [2021]
    • Exposure to lead: a major public health concern, 2nd edition [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Exercise and physical activity in pregnancy

• Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Physical activity and exercise during pregnancy in Africa: a review of the literature [2020]
• Asia, Pacific
  • BMJ Open Sport — Exercise Medicine
    • Asia-Pacific consensus on physical activity and exercise in pregnancy and the postpartum period [2021]
• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Exercise in pregnancy [2014]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Evidence-based physical activity guidelines for pregnant women [2020]
  • JMIR mHealth and uHealth
    • Evaluating Evidence-Based Content, Features of Exercise Instruction, and Expert Involvement in Physical Activity Apps for Pregnant Women: Systematic Search and Content Analysis [2022]
    • Quality, Features, and Presence of Behavior Change Techniques in Mobile Apps Designed to Improve Physical Activity in Pregnant Women: Systematic Search and Content Analysis [2021]
• Brazil
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
    • Position Statement on Exercise During Pregnancy and the Post-Partum Period – 2021 [2021]
• Canada
  • Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
    • Evidence-based risk assessment and recommendations for physical activity clearance: pregnancy [2011]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Hot yoga and pregnancy: Fitness and hyperthermia [2014]
  • Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association
    • Physical activity throughout pregnancy: guideline critical appraisal and implementation tool [2021]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • 2019 Canadian guideline for physical activity throughout pregnancy [2018]
• China
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Changes in physical activity across pregnancy among Chinese women: a longitudinal cohort study [2021]
• Denmark
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Compliance with national recommendations for exercise during early pregnancy in a Danish cohort [2015]
• Europe
  • BMJ Open
    • Status and contents of physical activity recommendations in European Union countries: a systematic comparative analysis [2020]
• International
  • American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
    • Guidelines for Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Comparisons From Around the World [2014]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Integrative Review of Exercise at Altitude during Pregnancy [2021]
  • Women's Health Reports
    • Professional Exercise Recommendations for Healthy Women Who Are Pregnant: A Systematic Review [2021]
• Iran
  • Acta Medica Iranica
    • Is ACOG guideline helpful for encouraging pregnant women to do exercise during pregnancy? [2014]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Relationship between Physical Activity and Physical and Mental Health Status in Pregnant Women: A Prospective Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
• Nigeria
  • ISRN Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Knowledge and Attitude of Nigerian Pregnant Women towards Antenatal Exercise: A Cross-Sectional Survey [2014]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Predicting who fails to meet the physical activity guideline in pregnancy: a prospective study of objectively recorded physical activity in a population-based multi-ethnic cohort [2016]
• Poland
  • Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
    • Physical activity patterns in third trimester of pregnancy – use of pregnancy physical activity questionnaire in Poland [2020]
    • Influence of prenatal physical activity on the course of labour and delivery according to the new Polish standard for perinatal care [2013]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Physical Activity Patterns among 9000 Pregnant Women in Poland: A Cross-Sectional Study [2020]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • Level of exercise and physical activity among pregnant women in Saudi Arabia: A systematic review [2021]
• Singapore
  • Perinatal Society of Singapore
    • Guidelines on physical activity & exercise in pregnancy [2020]
• South Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Exercise during pregnancy: knowledge and beliefs of medical practitioners in South Africa: a survey study [2015]
• Sweden
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Physical activity and sedentary time during pregnancy and associations with maternal and fetal health outcomes: an epidemiological study [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Physical activity for pregnant women: an infographic for healthcare professionals [2017]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Moving through Motherhood: Involving the Public in Research to Inform Physical Activity Promotion throughout Pregnancy and Beyond [2021]
  • Royal College of Physicians
    • Pregnancy: occupational aspects of management [2013]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Physical Activity and Exercise During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2020]
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Prevalence of U.S. Pregnant Women Meeting 2015 ACOG Physical Activity Guidelines [2016]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Provisional Recommended Weight Limits for Manual Lifting During Pregnancy [2014]
    • Clinical guidelines for occupational lifting in pregnancy: evidence summary and provisional recommendations [2013]
  • Clinical Medicine Insights: Women's Health
    • Activity in Pregnancy for Patients with a History of Preterm Birth [2016]
  • Cureus
    • Exercise During Pregnancy: Obstetricians’ Beliefs and Recommendations Compared to American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ 2015 Guidelines [2018]
  • International Journal of Exercise Science
    • An Assessment of Mobile Applications Designed to Address Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Postpartum [2021]
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
    • Benefits of Physical Activity during Pregnancy and Postpartum: An Umbrella Review [2019]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Physical Activity in Pregnancy and Neonatal Body Composition: The Healthy Start Study [2014]
  • Women's Health Issues
    • Exercise during pregnancy and risk of late preterm birth, cesarean delivery, and hospitalizations [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol in pregnancy

• Africa
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Actual and predicted prevalence of alcohol consumption during pregnancy in the WHO African Region [2016]
• Americas
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Assessment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2020]
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a review of interventions for prevention and management in Indigenous communities [2015]
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Predictors of antenatal alcohol use among Australian women: a prospective cohort study [2013]
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Invited commentary on Australian fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnostic guidelines [2014]
    • Recommendations from a consensus development workshop on the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Australia [2013]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Drowning our sorrows: clinical and ethical considerations of termination in alcohol-affected pregnancy [2020]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Australian Guide to the diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) [2016]
    • Alcohol
  • Department of Health Northern Territory Government
    • Addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the Northern Territory - 2018-2024 [2018]
  • International Journal of Population Data Science
    • Community Priority setting for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research in Australia [2020]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • National guidelines on alcohol use during pregnancy: a dissenting opinion [2007]
    • A review of policies on alcohol use during pregnancy in Australia and other English-speaking countries, 2006 [2007]
  • Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: the importance of assessment, diagnosis and support in the Australian justice context [2020]
  • Public Health Research and Practice
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Australia – the future is prevention [2015]
• Canada
  • BMC Public Health
    • The cost-effectiveness of screening tools used in the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a modelled analysis [2019]
    • Population-based prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Canada [2019]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Substance Use in Breastfeeding Parents: A Review of Safety and Guidelines [2018]
  • Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): A Policy Perspective [2019]
    • Advocacy-Related Information Distortion: The Case of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2019]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Management of Infants born to Mothers who have used Opioids during Pregnancy [2019]
  • CMAJ
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a guideline for diagnosis across the lifespan [2016]
  • Health
    • ‘Think before you drink’: Challenging narratives on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and indigeneity in Canada [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies [2019]
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
    • Teacher-Reported Prevalence of FASD in Kindergarten in Canada: Association with Child Development and Problems at Home [2021]
  • Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    • Persisting Concerns Regarding the New Canadian FASD Guidelines [2018]
    • A Critique of the New Canadian Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Guideline [2017]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Provincial Guideline for the Clinical Management of High-Risk Drinking and Alcohol [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Canada [2013]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Prevalence of alcohol use among women of reproductive age in Canada [2021]
    • FASD prevalence among children and youth: results from the 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth [2021]
    • Alcohol use during pregnancy and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Canada: who, what, where? [2021]
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Screening and Counselling for Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy [2020]
    • Alcohol Use and Pregnancy Consensus Clinical Guidelines [2017]
• Europe
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Prevention of harm caused by alcohol exposure in pregnancy. Rapid review and case studies from Member States (2016) [2016]
• France
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    • The frequency of severe Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in the neonatal period using data from the French hospital discharge database between 2006 and 2013 [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience [2018]
• Germany
  • European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
    • Diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS): German guideline version 2013 [2013]
• International
  • Addiction
    • Prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among special subpopulations: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
  • Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
    • Alcohol Use in Pregnancy and Miscarriage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Systematic literature review on which maternal alcohol behaviours are related to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) [2018]
  • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
    • Screening for Alcohol Use in Pregnancy: a Review of Current Practices and Perspectives [2021]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Estimation of national, regional, and global prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
    • The international charter on prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder [2014]
  • Neonatology
    • Ignored Papers, Invented Quotations: A History of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Alcohol’s Impact on the Fetus [2021]
• Israel
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    • Pregnant women’s alcohol consumption and knowledge about its risks: An Israeli survey [2021]
• Japan
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Association between maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and risk of preterm delivery: the Japan Environment and Children's Study [2019]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and Risk of Placental Abnormality: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2019]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Public Health
    • Prevalence and pattern of alcohol consumption during pregnancy in the Netherlands [2015]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Taking Action on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: 2016–2019: An action plan [2016]
    • Taking Action on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): A discussion document [2015]
    • Alcohol and Pregnancy: A practical guide for health professionals [2010]
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
  • Starship
    • Alcohol - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) [2018]
• Norway
  • Scientific Reports
    • Pre-conception and prenatal alcohol exposure from mothers and fathers drinking and head circumference: results from the Norwegian Mother-Child Study (MoBa) [2016]
• Poland
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs): Guidelines of Interdisciplinary Group of Polish Professionals [2021]
• Republic of Korea
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Alcohol Use Disorders and Increased Risk of Adverse Birth Complications and Outcomes: An 11-Year Nationwide Cohort Study [2020]
• Russia
  • Alcohol and Alcoholism
    • What Research Is Being Done on Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in the Russian Research Community? [2014]
• South Africa
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention in South Africa and Other Low-Resource Countries [2005]
  • Archives of Public Health
    • A pooled prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in South Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol [2021]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • A guideline for the prevention and management of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in South Africa [2019]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Policy Requirements for the Prevention and Management of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in South Africa: A Policy Brief [2021]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • A scoping review of the determinants of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa: an intersectional perspective [2021]
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • To what extent is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder considered in policy-related documents in South Africa? A document review [2019]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment
    • Alcohol consumption and its associated factors among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis' as given in the submission system [2020]
• Sweden
  • Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
    • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) – conditions and interventions [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Barriers and enablers of implementation of alcohol guidelines with pregnant women: a cross-sectional survey among UK midwives [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Low alcohol consumption and pregnancy and childhood outcomes: time to change guidelines indicating apparently ‘safe’ levels of alcohol during pregnancy? A systematic review and meta-analyses [2017]
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Alcohol Guidelines Review – Report from the Guidelines Development Group to the UK Chief Medical Officers [2016]
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: health needs assessment
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Children and young people exposed prenatally to alcohol [2019]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder [2022]
  • Public Health Scotland
    • Interventions to reduce alcohol consumption during pregnancy [2017]
• United States
  • Advances in Pediatric Research
    • Comparison of the 4-Digit Code, Canadian 2015, Australian 2016 and Hoyme 2016 fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnostic guidelines [2019]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • The Role of Integrated Care in a Medical Home for Patients With a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder [2018]
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2015]
  • American Family Physician
    • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2017]
  • American Journal of Nursing
    • Addressing Alcohol Use in Pregnancy [2020]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Week-by-week alcohol consumption in early pregnancy and spontaneous abortion risk: A prospective cohort study [2021]
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Trends in Alcohol Use Among Pregnant Women in the U.S., 2011–2018 [2020]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking During Pregnancy Among Adults Aged 18–49 Years — United States, 2018–2020 [2022]
    • Alcohol Use and Co-Use of Other Substances Among Pregnant Females Aged 12–44 Years — United States, 2015–2018 [2020]
    • Consumption of Alcohol Beverages and Binge Drinking Among Pregnant Women Aged 18–44 Years — United States, 2015–2017 [2019]
    • Vital Signs: Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies — United States, 2011–2013 [2016]
    • Alcohol Use and Binge Drinking Among Women of Childbearing Age — United States, 2011–2013 [2015]
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  • Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Alcohol Use in Pregnancy [2019]
  • Current Developmental Disorders Reports
    • Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (ND-PAE): Review of Evidence and Guidelines for Assessment [2015]
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    • Racial differences in the relationship between alcohol/pregnancy policies and birth outcomes and prenatal care utilization: A legal epidemiology study [2019]
  • Journal of Pediatric Health Care
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: What Pediatric Providers Need to Know [2017]
  • Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
    • Variations by education status in relationships between alcohol/pregnancy policies and birth outcomes and prenatal care utilization: a legal epidemiology study [2020]
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Performance Measurement: A Proposal to Increase Use of SBIRT and Decrease Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy [2014]
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
    • Fetal Alcohol Exposure
  • Pediatrics
    • Updated Clinical Guidelines for Diagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2016]
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    • Addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) [2014]
• United States, Canada
  • Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Can We Change the Future? [2020]
  • European Journal of Medical Genetics
    • Prevalence of alcohol consumption during pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders among the general and Aboriginal populations in Canada and the United States [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Fetal growth restriction

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Fetal growth restriction and well-being
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Screening, Diagnosis, and Management [2013]
• China
  • International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
    • Inadequate gestational weight gain and adverse pregnancy outcomes among normal weight women in China [2015]
• Germany
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Fetal Growth Restriction – Diagnostic Work-up, Management and Delivery [2020]
    • Intrauterine Growth Restriction. Guideline of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (S2k Level, AWMF Registry No. 015/080, October 2016) [2017]
• International
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Evidence-based national guidelines for the management of suspected fetal growth restriction: comparison, consensus, and controversy [2018]
  • Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
    • Consensus Definition of Fetal Growth Restriction in Intrauterine Fetal Death: A Delphi Procedure [2021]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) initiative on fetal growth: Best practice advice for screening, diagnosis, and management of fetal growth restriction [2021]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Practice Guidelines: diagnosis and management of small-for-gestational-age fetus and fetal growth restriction [2020]
  • Journal of Mother and Child
    • Is growth restriction in twin pregnancies a double challenge? [2021]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Essential variables for reporting research studies on fetal growth restriction: a Delphi consensus [2019]
    • Consensus definition and essential reporting parameters of selective fetal growth restriction in twin pregnancy: a Delphi procedure [2019]
  • Vaccine
    • Small for gestational age: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunisation safety data [2017]
    • Fetal growth restriction: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2017]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Fetal Growth Restriction - Recognition, Diagnosis and Management [2014]
• Nepal
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Role of antenatal care and iron supplementation during pregnancy in preventing low birth weight in Nepal: comparison of national surveys 2006 and 2011 [2014]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Multidisciplinary consensus on screening for, diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction in the Netherlands [2017]
• Nigeria
  • Global Health Action
    • Risk factors for low birth weight in Nigeria: evidence from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey [2016]
• Norway
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Intrauterine growth restriction [2016]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Recommendations on diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Effectiveness of folic acid supplementation in pregnancy on reducing the risk of small-for-gestational age neonates: a population study, systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
  • BMJ Open
    • Small-for-gestational age and large-for-gestational age thresholds to predict infants at risk of adverse delivery and neonatal outcomes: are current charts adequate? An observational study from the Born in Bradford cohort [2015]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Updated Guidance Regarding Fetal Growth Restriction [2020]
  • American College of Radiology
    • Growth Disturbances-Risk of Intrauterine Growth Restriction
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #52: Diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Premature infants, low birth weight
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Fetal maturation, antenatal corticosteroids

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Liggins Institute - The University of Auckland
    • Antenatal corticosteroids given to women prior to birth to improve fetal, infant, child and adult health: Clinical Practice Guidelines [2015]
• Brazil
  • Revista Paulista de Pediatria
    • Use of antenatal corticosteroids in Brazil: data analysis from the National Survey Nascer no Brasil [2021]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy for Improving Neonatal Outcomes [2018]
• Ethiopia
  • Global Pediatric Health
    • Antenatal Steroid Utilization in Ethiopia [2021]
• Finland
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Antenatal corticosteroid therapy (ACT) and size at birth: A population-based analysis using the Finnish Medical Birth Register [2019]
• France
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Impact of antenatal corticosteroids on head circumference of full-term newborns: A French multicenter cohort study [2020]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Operational Guidelines - Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids in Preterm Labour  [2014]
  • New Indian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Role of Antenatal Corticosteroids in preterm deliveries [2016]
• International
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids in Preterm Small-for-Gestational Age Infants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Antenatal corticosteroids for management of preterm birth: a multi-country analysis of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions [2015]
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Antenatal corticosteroids for impending late preterm (34-36+6 weeks) deliveries—A systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs [2021]
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Adverse Maternal and Child Outcomes in Special Populations of Women at Risk of Imminent Preterm Birth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • The global network antenatal corticosteroids trial: impact on stillbirth [2016]
    • The Antenatal Corticosteroids Trial (ACT)’s explanations for neonatal mortality - a secondary analysis [2016]
    • The Antenatal Corticosteroids Trial (ACT): a secondary analysis to explore site differences in a multi-country trial [2016]
• Japan
  • Scientific Reports
    • Antenatal corticosteroids and preterm offspring outcomes in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: A Japanese cohort study [2020]
• Low and middle income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Assessing the quality of antenatal corticosteroids in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2020]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Use of antenatal corticosteroids at health facilities and communities in low-and-middle income countries [2016]
    • Reducing neonatal mortality associated with preterm birth: gaps in knowledge of the impact of antenatal corticosteroids on preterm birth outcomes in low-middle income countries [2016]
• Low-resource countries
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Antenatal Dexamethasone for Early Preterm Birth in Low-Resource Countries [2020]
  • Trials
    • The World Health Organization ACTION-I (Antenatal CorTicosteroids for Improving Outcomes in preterm Newborns) Trial: a multi-country, multi-centre, two-arm, parallel, double-blind, placebo-controlled, individually randomized trial of antenatal corticosteroids for women at risk of imminent birth in the early preterm period in hospitals in low-resource countries [2019]
• Republic of Korea
  • Pediatrics and Neonatology
    • Dose completion of antenatal corticosteroids and neonatal outcomes in non-small-for-gestational age or small-for-gestational age very-low-birthweight infants: A Korean population-based cohort study [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids for Women at Risk of Imminent Preterm Birth in 7 sub-Saharan African Countries: A Policy and Implementation Landscape Analysis [2018]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
    • The gestational effect of antenatal corticosteroids on respiratory distress syndrome in very low birth weight infants: A population-based study [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Antenatal corticosteroids to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality [2022]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids at 22 Weeks of Gestation [2021]
    • Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy for Fetal Maturation [2017]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Assessing the potential impact of extending antenatal steroids to the late preterm period [2017]
  • American Journal of Perinatology
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids and Preterm Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality among Women with and without Diabetes in Pregnancy [2022]
  • Children
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids: Extending the Practice for Late-Preterm and Scheduled Early-Term Deliveries? [2021]
  • JAMA
    • Association of antenatal corticosteroids with mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes among infants born at 22–25 weeks gestation [2011]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids for Women at Risk of Late Preterm Delivery [2016]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #58: Use of antenatal corticosteroids for individuals at risk for late preterm delivery [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Premature labor, preterm delivery
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Newborn respiratory tract diseases

Fetal therapy

• Argentina
  • Archivos argentinos de pediatría
    • Update on prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery for myelomeningocele [2021]
• Asia
  • Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
    • Establishing Prenatal Surgery for Myelomeningocele in Asia: The Singapore Consensus [2017]
• Brazil
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
    • Brazilian Fetal Cardiology Guidelines [2019]
• Germany
  • Translational Pediatrics
    • Counseling for fetal heart disease—current standards and best practice [2021]
• International
  • Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
    • Fetal surgical intervention for myelomeningocele: lessons learned, outcomes, and future implications [2020]
  • International Fetal Cardiac Invention Registry
    • Fetal Cardiac Intervention for Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum: International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry [2020]
    • Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome With Intact or Restrictive Atrial Septum: A Report From the International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry [2017]
    • International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry: A Worldwide Collaborative Description and Preliminary Outcomes [2015]
  • International Fetal Transplantation and Immunology Society
    • Fetal and Maternal Safety Considerations for In Utero Therapy Clinical Trials: iFeTiS Consensus Statement [2020]
    • In Utero Gene Therapy Consensus Statement from the IFeTIS [2019]
  • Medicina
    • Myelomeningocele Surgery over the 10 Years Following the MOMS Trial: A Systematic Review of Outcomes in Prenatal versus Postnatal Surgical Repair [2021]
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
    • Fetoscopic myelomeningocoele closure: Is the scientific evidence enough to challenge the gold standard for prenatal surgery? [2021]
  • Translational Pediatrics
    • Modern fetal surgery—a historical review of the happenings that shaped modern fetal surgery and its practices [2021]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Consensus diagnostic criteria and monitoring of twin anemia–polycythemia sequence: Delphi procedure [2020]
    • Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the International Fetoscopic Myelomeningocele Repair Consortium [2019]
    • A worldwide survey of laser surgery for twin–twin transfusion syndrome [2014]
• Italy
  • La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica
    • Guidelines of the Italian Society of Videosurgery in Infancy (SIVI) for the minimally invasive treatment of fetal and neonatal ovarian cysts [2020]
• Japan
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
    • Fetal therapies as standard prenatal care in Japan [2020]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Current views on fetal surgical treatment of myelomeningocele — the Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS) trial and Polish clinical experience [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Open prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus [2020]
    • Fetoscopic prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus [2020]
    • Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty for fetal critical aortic stenosis [2018]
    • Fetal cystoscopy for diagnosis and treatment of lower urinary outflow tract obstruction [2007]
    • Septostomy with or without amnioreduction for the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome [2006]
    • Intrauterine laser ablation of placental vessels for the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome [2006]
    • Fetal vesico-amniotic shunt for lower urinary tract outflow obstruction [2006]
  • NHS England
    • Prenatal surgery for open spina bifida [2018]
    • Management of Twin to Twin Syndrome by fetoscopic laser ablation [2015]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Maternal–Fetal Surgery for Myelomeningocele [2017]
  • American Heart Association
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Fetal Cardiac Disease [2014]
  • Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases
    • Fetal cardiac interventions: Where do we stand? [2020]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • A Randomized Trial of Prenatal versus Postnatal Repair of Myelomeningocele [2011]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Twin-twin transfusion syndrome [2013]
  • Spina Bifida Association
    • Prenatal counseling: Guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida [2020]
• United States, Canada
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • North American Fetal Therapy Network: Timing of and indications for delivery following laser ablation for twin-twin transfusion syndrome [2019]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Newborn
    • Neural tube defects, folic acid

Gestational diabetes

• Africa
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Prevalence and determinants of gestational diabetes mellitus in Africa based on the updated international diagnostic criteria: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Africa: A Systematic Review [2014]
• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus – negotiating the confusion [2013]
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Incidence of gestational diabetes in Australia [2019]
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus: A pragmatic approach to diagnosis and management [2018]
  • Better Safer Care
    • Gestational diabetes
  • Current Diabetes Reports
    • Counterpoint: Establishing Consensus in the Diagnosis of GDM Following the HAPO Study [2014]
  • Diabetes Australia
    • Gestational Diabetes in Australia [2020]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • A Review of the Current Status of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Australia—The Clinical Impact of Changing Population Demographics and Diagnostic Criteria on Prevalence [2020]
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • Implementation of the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Criteria: Not Always a Cause for Concern [2015]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Hyperglycaemia in pregnancy in Australia: screening and diagnosis [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society
    • ADIPS Consensus Guidelines for the Testing and Diagnosis of Hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy in Australia and New Zealand [2014]
• Belgium
  • PLoS ONE
    • Glucose Intolerance after a Recent History of Gestational Diabetes Based on the 2013 WHO Criteria [2016]
• Canada
  • Environmental Research
    • Exposure to organophosphorus and organochlorine pesticides, perfluoroalkyl substances, and polychlorinated biphenyls in pregnancy and the association with impaired glucose tolerance and gestational diabetes mellitus: The MIREC Study [2016]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Trends in National Canadian Guideline Recommendations for the Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus over the Years: A Scoping Review [2021]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Diabetes in Pregnancy [2019]
• China
  • BMJ Open
    • The short-term health and economic burden of gestational diabetes mellitus in China: a modelling study [2017]
  • Chronic Diseases and Translational Medicine
    • Diagnosis, prevention and management of gestational diabetes mellitus [2016]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence, Prevention, and Lifestyle Intervention of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in China [2020]
  • Journal of Diabetes Investigation
    • The Influence of Different Diagnostic Criteria on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Incidence and Medical Expenditures in China [2019]
    • Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in mainland China: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Croatia
  • Biochemia Medica
    • Redefinition of gestational diabetes mellitus: implications for laboratory practice in Croatia [2013]
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • Impact of the Implementation of New WHO Diagnostic Criteria for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on Prevalence and Perinatal Outcomes: A Population-Based Study [2016]
• Denmark
  • BMC Public Health
    • Associations between follow-up screening after gestational diabetes and early detection of diabetes – a register based study [2014]
  • Nutrients
    • Diet and Healthy Lifestyle in the Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2020]
• Europe
  • Diabetes Care
    • Applying Current Screening Tools for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus to a European Population: Is It Time for Change? [2013]
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Europe: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence Studies [2021]
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Towards a European Consensus on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Pragmatic Guide for Diagnosis, Management, and Care. The Polish Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group and FIGO [2017]
• Finland
  • BMC Public Health
    • Healthy Food Intake Index (HFII) – Validity and reproducibility in a gestational-diabetes-risk population [2016]
  • Food & Nutrition Research
    • Nutrient intake of pregnant women at high risk of gestational diabetes [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Pregnancy outcomes according to the definition of gestational diabetes [2020]
• Germany
  • Journal of the Turkish German Gynecological Association
    • German gynecologists’ experience with a universal screening for gestational diabetes mellitus in daily practice: A qualitative study [2016]
• Germany, Switzerland, Austria
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) – Diagnosis, Treatment and Follow-Up. Guideline of the DDG and DGGG (S3 Level, AWMF Registry Number 057/008, February 2018) [2018]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Guidelines for the Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2016]
• India
  • Acta Diabetologica
    • Comparison of screening for gestational diabetes mellitus by oral glucose tolerance tests done in the non-fasting (random) and fasting states [2014]
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • The Challenges and Recommendations for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Care in India: A Review [2017]
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Need for testing glucose tolerance in the early weeks of pregnancy [2016]
    • Current practices in the diagnosis and management of gestational diabetes mellitus in India (WINGS-5) [2016]
    • Psychosocial management of diabetes in pregnancy [2013]
    • Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus and its outcome in western Rajasthan [2013]
  • Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
    • Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Where Do We Stand [2016]
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • A step towards real-time implementation of GDM guidelines in India: Review of Gaps in RCH Programme [2020]
  • Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
    • Evaluation of the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in North Indians using the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study groups (IADPSG) criteria [2015]
  • Medicina
    • Negotiating Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in India: A National Approach [2021]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Quality appraisal of gestational diabetes mellitus guidelines with AGREE II: a systematic review [2019]
    • Current guidelines on the management of gestational diabetes mellitus: a content analysis and appraisal [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Evaluation of guidelines on the screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus: systematic review [2019]
    • Assessment of the methodological quality of local clinical practice guidelines on the identification and management of gestational diabetes [2019]
  • Diabetes Care
    • Summary and Recommendations of the Fifth International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2007]
  • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    • Increasing prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus when implementing the IADPSG criteria: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
    • An Update on Screening Strategies for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Narrative Review [2021]
  • Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
    • The impact of diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes on its prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
  • Drugs in Context
    • A review of current treatment strategies for gestational diabetes mellitus [2015]
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • Association of maternal lipid profile and gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 292 studies and 97,880 women [2021]
  • International Association of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups
    • International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Recommendations on the Diagnosis and Classification of Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy [2010]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO’s response to the global challenge of hyperglycemia in pregnancy – toward a global consensus [2018]
    • The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Initiative on gestational diabetes mellitus: A pragmatic guide for diagnosis, management, and care [2015]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Updated guidelines on screening for gestational diabetes [2015]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • The Risk for Glucose Intolerance after Gestational Diabetes Mellitus since the Introduction of the IADPSG Criteria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
  • Nursing Open
    • Guidelines for the nursing management of gestational diabetes mellitus: An integrative literature review [2019]
  • Nutrients
    • The Carbohydrate Threshold in Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes: How Low Can We Go? [2021]
  • World Diabetes Foundation
    • The urgent need for universally applicable simple screening procedures and diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes mellitus – lessons from projects funded by the World Diabetes Foundation [2012]
    • Health system and societal barriers for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) services - lessons from World Diabetes Foundation supported GDM projects [2012]
  • World Journal of Diabetes
    • Exercise guidelines for gestational diabetes mellitus [2015]
• Iran
  • International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Iranian Endocrine Society Guidelines for Screening, Diagnosis, and Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2021]
  • Iranian Journal of Public Health
    • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Gestational Diabetes in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2015]
• Ireland
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • The impact of revised diagnostic criteria on hospital trends in gestational diabetes mellitus rates in a high income country [2020]
• Italy
  • ISRN Endocrinology
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Screening and Outcomes in Southern Italian Pregnant Women [2013]
• Japan
  • Endocrine Journal
    • Clinical impact of women with gestational diabetes mellitus by the new consensus criteria: two year experience in a single institution in Japan [2014]
• Jordan
  • Annals of Medicine and Surgery
    • Trends in maternal characteristics, and maternal and neonatal outcomes of women with gestational diabetes: A study from Jordan [2021]
• Mexico
  • Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
    • Screening and management of gestational diabetes in Mexico: results from a survey of multilocation, multi-health care institution practitioners [2018]
• Middle East, North Africa
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the Middle East and North Africa, 2000–2019: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression [2021]
• Morocco
  • Global Health Action
    • Diagnosis a posteriori? Assessing gestational diabetes screening and management in Morocco [2016]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Implementation of a first-trimester prognostic model to improve screening for gestational diabetes mellitus [2021]
• New Zealand
  • BMJ Open
    • Cost-effectiveness of the New Zealand diabetes in pregnancy guideline screening recommendations [2015]
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Screening, Diagnosis and Management of Gestational Diabetes in New Zealand: A clinical practice guideline [2014]
    • Diabetes in Pregnancy [2014]
  • Nutrients
    • Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Adherence to Dietary Guidelines in Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Cohort Study [2021]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Screening and diagnosis of GDM in New Zealand [2018]
• Nigeria
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and determinants of gestational diabetes mellitus in Nigeria [2021]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Identifying women with gestational diabetes based on maternal characteristics: an analysis of four Norwegian prospective studies [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • A Systematic Review of the Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes in Norway [2021]
• Palau
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Assessment of Gestational Diabetes and Associated Risk Factors and Outcomes in the Pacific Island Nation of Palau [2017]
• Qatar
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of newly detected diabetes in pregnancy in Qatar, using universal screening [2018]
• Republic of Korea
  • Diabetes & Metabolism Journal
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Korean Women: Similarities and Differences from Other Racial/Ethnic Groups [2014]
  • Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • The Clinical Characteristics of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Korea: A National Health Information Database Study [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Korea: A National Health Insurance Database Study [2016]
• Singapore
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Impact of adopting the 2013 World Health Organization criteria for diagnosis of gestational diabetes in a multi-ethnic Asian cohort: a prospective study [2018]
    • Ethnic differences translate to inadequacy of high-risk screening for gestational diabetes mellitus in an Asian population: a cohort study [2014]
• South Africa
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Policies and clinical practices relating to the management of gestational diabetes mellitus in the public health sector, South Africa – a qualitative study [2018]
• South Asia
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and adverse pregnancy outcome in South Asia: A systematic review [2021]
• South-East Asia
  • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • ILSI Southeast Asia symposium: prevalence, risk factors, and actions to address gestational diabetes in selected Southeast Asian countries [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review [2021]
• Sri Lanka
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Comparing Different Diagnostic Guidelines for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Relation to Birthweight in Sri Lankan Women [2018]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Burden, risk factors and maternal and offspring outcomes of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Sweden
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Changing diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes in Sweden - a stepped wedge national cluster randomised controlled trial - the CDC4G study protocol [2019]
    • No consensus on gestational diabetes mellitus screening regimes in Sweden: pregnancy outcomes in relation to different screening regimes 2011 to 2012, a cross-sectional study [2014]
• Switzerland
  • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    • Effect of the IADPSG screening strategy for gestational diabetes on perinatal outcomes in Switzerland [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of Diabetes Investigation
    • Increasing trend in the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in Taiwan [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Plasma 25(OH)D Concentrations and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus among Pregnant Women in Taiwan [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Effects of Implementing the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Criteria for Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes [2015]
• Thai-Myanmar border
  • Global Health Action
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus prevalence in Maela refugee camp on the Thai–Myanmar Border: a clinical report [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Diabetes screening after gestational diabetes in England: a quantitative retrospective cohort study [2013]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Clinical Implications of the NICE 2015 Criteria for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2018]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • GDm-Health for people with gestational diabetes [2017]
• United States
  • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
    • Gestational Diabetes
  • Advances in Nutrition
    • Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors Associated With Weight Gain and Impaired Glucose Tolerance Among Pregnant Latinas [2012]
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review to Update the 2014 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Patterns of gestational diabetes diagnosis inside and outside of clinical guidelines [2017]
  • Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
    • The effect of adopting the IADPSG screening guidelines on the risk profile and outcomes of the gestational diabetes population [2015]
  • Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
    • Gestational Diabetes and Health Behaviors Among Women: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007–2014 [2018]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • SMFM Statement: Pharmacological treatment of gestational diabetes [2018]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Gestational Diabetes: Screening [2021]
• Vietnam
  • Diabetes Care
    • Early Prediction of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Vietnam [2013]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Diagnostic criteria and classification of hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy [2013]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Pregnancy in diabetics, pre-existing diabetes
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Hematologic diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Anaemia in pregnancy [2019]
  • Australian Red Cross Blood Service
    • Haemoglobin Assessment and Optimisation in Maternity
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Haemoglobin disorders
• China
  • China CDC Weekly
    • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Anemia of Pregnant Women — 6 Provinces in China, 2014-2018 [2020]
  • Nutrients
    • Preconception Hemoglobin Concentration and Risk of Low Birth Weight and Small-for-Gestational-Age: A Large Prospective Cohort Study in China [2022]
• East Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among pregnant women in East Africa; A multi-level analysis of recent Demographic and Health Surveys [2021]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Hematology
    • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among pregnant women in Ethiopia; a systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
  • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
    • Is Indoor Air Pollution From Different Fuel Types Associated With the Anemia Status of Pregnant Women in Ethiopia? [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Trend and determinants of anemia change among pregnant and/or lactating women in Ethiopia: A multivariate decomposition analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • European Hematology Association
    • Recommendations for Pregnancy in Rare Inherited Anemias [2020]
  • European Molecular Genetics Quality Network
    • EMQN Best Practice Guidelines for molecular and haematology methods for carrier identification and prenatal diagnosis of the haemoglobinopathies [2014]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Ethical issues in genetic counselling with special reference to haemoglobinopathies [2011]
• International
  • Blood
    • Management of thrombotic microangiopathy in pregnancy and postpartum: report from an international working group [2020]
  • Blood Advances
    • Consensus statement for the perinatal management of patients with a thalassemia major [2021]
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • International values for haemoglobin distributions in healthy pregnant women [2020]
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
    • Hematologic Malignancies in Pregnancy: Management Guidelines From an International Consensus Meeting [2016]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Risk of maternal mortality in women with severe anaemia during pregnancy and post partum: a multilevel analysis [2018]
  • Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis
    • Patient blood management in obstetrics: management of anaemia and haematinic deficiencies in pregnancy and in the post-partum period: NATA consensus statement [2018]
• Jamaica
  • PLoS ONE
    • Excess Risk of Maternal Death from Sickle Cell Disease in Jamaica: 1998–2007 [2011]
• Kenya
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Mapping of anaemia prevalence among pregnant women in Kenya (2016–2019) [2020]
• South Africa
  • Systematic Reviews
    • The prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of anaemia in South African pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Prevalence and determinants of Anemia among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and Meta-analysis [2021]
• Tanzania
  • Nutrition Journal
    • High burden of anemia among pregnant women in Tanzania: a call to address its determinants [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Management of sickle cell disease in pregnancy. A British Society for Haematology Guideline [2021]
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute myeloid leukaemia in pregnancy [2015]
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Pregnancy and Newborn Screening: Haemoglobinopathies in Pregnancy Standards [2019]
  • Public Health England
    • Sickle cell and thalassaemia handbook for antenatal laboratories [2017]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Management of Women with Red Cell Antibodies during Pregnancy [2014]
    • Management of Beta Thalassaemia in Pregnancy [2014]
    • Sickle Cell Disease in Pregnancy, Management of [2011]
• United States
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Obstetrician-Gynecologists’ knowledge of sickle cell disease screening and management [2014]
  • Cureus
    • Hematologic Findings in Pregnancy: A Guide for the Internist [2021]
  • Therapeutic Advances in Hematology
    • Thrombopoietin receptor agonist for treatment of immune thrombocytopenia in pregnancy: a narrative review [2021]
• United States, United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Quality assessment of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the management of pregnant women with sickle cell disease using the AGREE II instrument: a systematic review [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy
    • Anemia and hemoglobinopathies

Iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy

• Australia
  • BMJ Quality Improvement Reports
    • Improving patient blood management in obstetrics: snapshots of a practice improvement partnership [2017]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Anaemia
  • Nutrients
    • Are Pregnant Women Who Are Living with Overweight or Obesity at Greater Risk of Developing Iron Deficiency/Anaemia? [2021]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The use of intravenous iron in pregnancy: for whom and when? A survey of Australian and New Zealand obstetricians [2020]
• Austria
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Diagnosis and Therapy of Iron Deficiency Anemia During Pregnancy: Recommendation of the Austrian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (OEGGG) [2022]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Screening and Treatment of Obstetric Anemia: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prevalence of anemia and iron deficiency anemia in Chinese pregnant women (IRON WOMEN): a national cross-sectional survey [2020]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Anaemia and iron deficiency in pregnancy and postpartum [2016]
• Ethiopia
  • Advances in Preventive Medicine
    • Compliance to Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation and Its Association with the Number of ANC Visits in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Adherence to iron-folic acid supplementation among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
    • Differences in spatial distributions of iron supplementation use among pregnant women and associated factors in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2011 national population based survey [2017]
  • Heliyon
    • Individual and community-level determinants of Iron-Folic Acid Intake for the recommended period among pregnant women in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Adherence of iron and folic acid supplementation and determinants among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Europe
  • Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
    • Dietary Iron Intake in Pregnant Women in Europe: A Review of 24 Studies from 14 Countries in the Period 1991–2014 [2020]
• France
  • Women's Health
    • Assessment of Iron Deficiency and Anemia in Pregnant Women: An Observational French Study [2016]
• India
  • Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
    • Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy [2017]
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • Comparison of different doses of daily iron supplementation for anemia prophylaxis in pregnancy: A systematic review [2020]
• Indonesia
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Nutritional contributors to maternal anemia in Indonesia: Chronic energy deficiency and micronutrients [2020]
• International
  • Lancet Haematology
    • Iron (Fe) preparations for women of Reproductive age with Iron Deficiency Anaemia in pregnancy: FRIDA, a systematic review and network meta-analysis [2021]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Current levels of coverage of iron and folic acid fortification are insufficient to meet the recommended intake for women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Reducing the Burden of Anemia and Neural Tube Defects in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis to Identify Countries with an Immediate Potential to Benefit from Large-Scale Mandatory Fortification of Wheat Flour and Rice [2021]
• Malawi
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
    • Examining the Role of Health Facilities in Supporting Iron Folic Acid Supplementation Adherence Among Women in Malawi (OR25-03-19) [2019]
• Nepal
  • Journal of Nutrition
    • Antenatal Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation Reduces Neonatal and Under-5 Mortality in Nepal [2015]
• Nigeria
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Factors associated with compliance to recommended micronutrients uptake for prevention of anemia during pregnancy in urban, peri-urban, and rural communities in Southeast Nigeria [2016]
  • Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice
    • Iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy in Nigeria—A systematic review [2020]
• Pakistan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Predictors of iron consumption for at least 90 days during pregnancy: Findings from National Demographic Health Survey, Pakistan (2017–2018) [2021]
• Philippines
  • Nutrients
    • Factors Influencing the Compliance of Pregnant Women with Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation in the Philippines: 2017 Philippine Demographic and Health Survey Analysis [2021]
• Portugal
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Oral Iron Supplementation in Pregnancy: Current Recommendations and Evidence-Based Medicine [2021]
• Singapore
  • BMC Public Health
    • Iron status and risk factors of iron deficiency among pregnant women in Singapore: a cross-sectional study [2019]
• Spain
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Applying reflective multicriteria decision analysis to understand the value of therapeutic alternatives in the management of gestational and peripartum anaemia in Spain [2022]
• Sri Lanka
  • BMJ Global Health
    • The need for standard definitions in global data comparison: lessons from studying the prevalence of anaemia during pregnancy in Sri Lanka [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
    • Adherence to Iron Supplementation in 22 Sub-Saharan African Countries and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women: A Large Population-Based Study [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Compliance with Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (IFAS) and associated factors among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Nutrients
    • Associations of Food and Nutrient Intake with Serum Hepcidin and the Risk of Gestational Iron-Deficiency Anemia among Pregnant Women: A Population-Based Study [2021]
• Tanzania
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Factors Associated With Uptake of Iron Supplement During Pregnancy Among Women of Reproductive Age in Tanzania: an Analysis of Data From the 2015 to 2016 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicators Survey [2021]
• Turkey
  • Turkish Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy and the postpartum period: Iron deficiency anemia working group consensus report [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Screening for iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy: a structured review and gap analysis against UK national screening criteria [2015]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • UK guidelines on the management of iron deficiency in pregnancy [2020]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Routine Iron Supplementation and Screening for Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women [2015]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women: Screening and Supplementation [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Improving antenatal iron-containing supplementation indicators: a report on key informant interviews, an online survey and DHS data analyses [2020]
    • Developing and validating an iron and folic acid supplementation indicator for tracking progress towards global nutrition monitoring framework targets: final report June 2018 [2018]
    • Guideline: Iron supplementation in postpartum women [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy

Kidney diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Proteinuria
• China
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in hospitalized pregnant women in China [2019]
  • Chinese Medical Journal
    • Surgical interventions for symptomatic urinary stones during pregnancy [2021]
  • Internal Medicine
    • Pregnancy-related Acute Kidney Injury and a Review of the Literature in China [2015]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Urological diseases and pregnancy [2019]
    • Chronic renal diseases and pregnancy [2019]
• India
  • Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
    • Changing epidemiology of acute kidney injury in pregnancy: A journey of four decades from a developing country [2019]
• International
  • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Nutrition care for chronic kidney disease during pregnancy: an updated review [2020]
• Italy
  • Journal of Nephrology
    • A best practice position statement on pregnancy in chronic kidney disease: the Italian Study Group on Kidney and Pregnancy [2016]
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN
    • Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with CKD [2015]
• Japan
  • Endocrine Journal
    • Pregnancy-associated diabetes insipidus in Japan—a review based on quoting from the literatures reported during the period from 1982 to 2019 [2021]
• Sweden
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Pregnancy outcomes in women with chronic kidney disease and chronic hypertension: a National cohort study [2021]
  • Journal of Nephrology
    • Pregnancy outcomes in women with immunoglobulin A nephropathy: a nationwide population-based cohort study [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Clinical practice guideline on pregnancy and renal disease [2019]
• United States
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
    • Renal Disorders in Pregnancy: Core Curriculum 2019 [2019]
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
    • Pregnancy outcomes in women on hemodialysis: a national survey [2017]
  • Frontiers in Surgery
    • Management of Nephrolithiasis in Pregnancy: Multi-Disciplinary Guidelines From an Academic Medical Center [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Maternal mortality and morbidity

• Afghanistan
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • National and sub-national analysis of the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce maternal mortality in Afghanistan [2013]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Achieving maternal and child health gains in Afghanistan: a Countdown to 2015 country case study [2016]
• Africa
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Skilled Health Personnel Attended Delivery as a Proxy Indicator for Maternal and Perinatal Mortality: A Systematic Review [2014]
• Americas
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Plan of action to accelerate the reduction of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity: monitoring and evaluation strategy [2012]
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Maternal deaths
  • O&G Magazine
    • Monitoring maternal mortality and morbidity in Australia [2018]
• Bangladesh
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Reducing Maternal Mortality and Improving Maternal Health: Bangladesh and MDG 5 [2008]
• Botswana
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • A root-cause analysis of maternal deaths in Botswana: towards developing a culture of patient safety and quality improvement [2014]
• Brazil
  • BMC Medicine
    • Long-term impact of a conditional cash transfer programme on maternal mortality: a nationwide analysis of Brazilian longitudinal data [2021]
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Estimation of maternal mortality rates in Brazil, 2008-2011 [2014]
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Will Brazil comply with the SDG 3.1 of the 2030 Agenda? An analysis of maternal mortality, from 1996 to 2018 [2021]
  • Jornal de Pediatria
    • Temporal and spatial evolution of maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Brazil, 1997–2012 [2016]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Temporal Trend of Near Miss and its Regional Variations in Brazil from 2010 to 2018 [2021]
• Burundi
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality in rural Africa: an experience from Burundi [2013]
• China
  • BioMed Research International
    • Provincial Maternal Mortality Surveillance Systems in China [2014]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal health services utilization and maternal mortality in China: a longitudinal study from 2009 to 2016 [2020]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Maternal mortality ratio in China from 1990 to 2019: trends, causes and correlations [2021]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Reducing maternal mortality in China in the era of the two-child policy [2020]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Spatiotemporal trends and ecological determinants in maternal mortality ratios in 2,205 Chinese counties, 2010–2013: A Bayesian modelling analysis [2020]
• Denmark
  • Danish Medical Journal
    • Reduction in maternal mortality in Denmark over three decades [2021]
    • An audit of 70 maternal deaths [2021]
• Developing countries
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness (BPCR) interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]
  • World Health Organization
    • Education and severe maternal outcomes in developing countries: a multicountry cross-sectional survey [2014]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Improving maternal health to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a youth lens [2008]
• Ecuador
  • Journal of Public Health Research
    • Maternal Deaths Databases Analysis: Ecuador 2003-2013 [2016]
• Eritrea
  • Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
    • Evaluation of a community intervention for promotion of safe motherhood in Eritrea [2011]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Trends and causes of maternal mortality in Ethiopia during 1990–2013: findings from the Global Burden of Diseases study 2013 [2017]
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Review of Maternal Mortality in Ethiopia: A Story of the Past 30 Years [2014]
    • Reasons for Persistently High Maternal and Perinatal Mortalities in Ethiopia: Part II-So-Socio-Economic and Cultural Factors [2014]
    • Commentary: Reasons for Persistently High Maternal and Perinatal Mortalities in Ethiopia: Part III-Perspective of the “Three Delays” Model [2014]
    • Commentary: Actions in the Pipeline and the Way Forward to Reduce Maternal and Perinatal Mortality in Ethiopia [2014]
    • Causes of Maternal Mortality in Ethiopia: A Significant Decline in Abortion Related Death [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Age, period and cohort analysis of age-specific maternal mortality trend in Ethiopia: A secondary analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Reduction of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in countries. Meeting report [2013]
    • Making pregnancy safer : multi-country review meeting on maternal mortality and morbidity audit "Beyond the Numbers" : report of a WHO meeting, Charvak, Uzbekistan 14-17 June 2010 [2010]
• Georgia
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Maternal Mortality in Georgia: Incidence, Causes and Level of Underreporting: A National Reproductive Age Mortality Study 2014 [2020]
  • Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Scoping maternal care through the lens of maternal deaths: A retrospective analysis of maternal mortality in Georgia [2020]
• Ghana
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Millennium development Goal 5: progress and challenges in reducing maternal deaths in Ghana [2016]
• Indonesia
  • Global Health Action
    • Relating the construction and maintenance of maternal ill-health in rural Indonesia [2012]
  • Population Health Metrics
    • The impact of family planning on maternal mortality in Indonesia: what future contribution can be expected? [2021]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Constructing maternal morbidity – towards a standard tool to measure and monitor maternal health beyond mortality [2016]
    • A common monitoring framework for ending preventable maternal mortality, 2015–2030: phase I of a multi-step process [2016]
    • Framing maternal morbidity: WHO scoping exercise [2013]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Advancing maternal survival in the global context: are our strategies working? [2013]
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Maternal Mortality
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Galvanizing Collective Action to Accelerate Reductions in Maternal and Newborn Mortality and Prevention of Stillbirths [2021]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Thinking beyond maternal mortality: Re-conceptualizing and measuring maternal morbidity [2018]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Recommendations for refining key maternal health policy and finance indicators to strengthen a framework for monitoring the Strategies toward Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) [2021]
  • Lancet
    • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 [2016]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health — So Near and Yet So Far [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Monitoring maternal near miss/severe maternal morbidity: A systematic review of global practices [2020]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Towards elimination of maternal deaths: maternal deaths surveillance and response [2013]
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Obstetric transition in the World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health: exploring pathways for maternal mortality reduction [2015]
  • Statistics, Politics and Policy
    • A New Method for Deriving Global Estimates of Maternal Mortality [2012]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Monitoring maternal and newborn health outcomes globally: a brief history of key events and initiatives [2019]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Maternal mortality
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • The Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Case Studies on Strengthening Midwifery Services to Avert Maternal and Newborn Deaths [2019]
  • Vaccine
    • Maternal death: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2016]
• Iran
  • Reproductive Health
    • Determinants and causes of maternal mortality in Iran based on ICD-MM: a systematic review [2019]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Bereavement Care Following Maternal Death Within a Hospital Setting [2017]
    • Guidelines for the Critically Ill Woman in Obstetrics [2014]
• Italy
  • Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
    • The way to move beyond the numbers: the lesson learnt from the Italian Obstetric Surveillance System [2019]
• Japan
  • BMJ Open
    • Current status of pregnancy-related maternal mortality in Japan: a report from the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee in Japan [2016]
• Kenya
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Cost of maternal near miss and potentially life-threatening conditions, Kenya [2021]
• Latin America
  • Reproductive Health
    • Maternal near miss and predictive ability of potentially life-threatening conditions at selected maternity hospitals in Latin America [2016]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Reproductive Health and Healthy Motherhood. Aligning National Legislation with International Human Rights Law [2014]
• Low and lower middle income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • What maternal morbidities are and what they mean for women: A thematic analysis of twenty years of qualitative research in low and lower-middle income countries [2019]
  • Reproductive Health
    • The relationship between birth intervals and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes in six low and lower-middle income countries [2020]
    • Maternal mortality in six low and lower-middle income countries from 2010 to 2018: risk factors and trends [2020]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Audit-identified avoidable factors in maternal and perinatal deaths in low resource settings: a systematic review [2014]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Prognostic models for adverse pregnancy outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2019]
  • Human Resources for Health
    • Systematic review on human resources for health interventions to improve maternal health outcomes: evidence from low- and middle-income countries [2016]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Estimating the global impact of poor quality of care on maternal and neonatal outcomes in 81 low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Quality of medicines for life-threatening pregnancy complications in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2020]
• Low-resource settings
  • Lancet
    • Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
• Malawi
  • BMC Medical Research Methodology
    • Easier said than done!: methodological challenges with conducting maternal death review research in Malawi [2014]
• Mexico
  • PLoS ONE
    • Towards an Inclusive and Evidence-Based Definition of the Maternal Mortality Ratio: An Analysis of the Distribution of Time after Delivery of Maternal Deaths in Mexico, 2010-2013 [2016]
• Middle-income countries
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Maternal mortality: near-miss events in middle-income countries, a systematic review [2021]
• Moldova
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • The Moldovan experience of maternal death reviews [2014]
• Morocco
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Actions on social determinants and interventions in primary health to improve mother and child health and health equity in Morocco [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Determinants of Maternal Near-Miss in Morocco: Too Late, Too Far, Too Sloppy? [2015]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Preventable maternal mortality in Morocco: the role of hospitals [2013]
    • Implementing a maternal mortality surveillance system in Morocco [2013]
• Mozambique
  • PLoS ONE
    • Mapping maternal mortality rate via spatial zero-inflated models for count data: A case study of facility-based maternal deaths from Mozambique [2018]
• Myanmar
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • New Politics, an Opportunity for Maternal Health Advancement in Eastern Myanmar: An Integrative Review [2014]
• Nepal
  • PLoS ONE
    • An Analysis of Factors Linked to the Decline in Maternal Mortality in Nepal [2014]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Policies and actions to reduce maternal mortality in Nepal: perspectives of key informants [2021]
• New Zealand
  • BMJ Open
    • Under-reporting of maternal and perinatal adverse events in New Zealand [2015]
• Nigeria
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Application of maternal near-miss approach to audits of severe maternal complications in a low-resource country [2019]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Poverty and maternal mortality in Nigeria: towards a more viable ethics of modern medical practice [2008]
  • Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice
    • Reducing maternal deaths in a low resource setting in Nigeria [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The influence of the social and cultural environment on maternal mortality in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2013 demographic and health survey [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Maternal death and obstetric care audits in Nigeria: a systematic review of barriers and enabling factors in the provision of emergency care [2016]
• Pakistan
  • Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
    • Issues of maternal health in Pakistan: trends towards millennium development goal 5 [2014]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Why are the Pakistani maternal, fetal and newborn outcomes so poor compared to other low and middle-income countries? [2020]
• Philippines
  • Department of Health Philippines
    • Manual of Operations for Implementing Health Reforms Towards Rapid Reduction in Maternal and Neonatal Mortality [2009]
• Rwanda
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal death audit in Rwanda 2009–2013: a nationwide facility-based retrospective cohort study [2016]
• Senegal
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Improving survey data on pregnancy-related deaths in low-and middle-income countries: a validation study in Senegal [2015]
• Senegal, Mali
  • PLoS ONE
    • Predicting In-Hospital Maternal Mortality in Senegal and Mali [2013]
• South Africa
  • BMC Public Health
    • A cross-sectional analysis of the geographic distribution and causes of maternal mortality in South Africa: 2002–2006 [2015]
• South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Direct maternal morbidity and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: A population-based prospective cohort study in 8 countries [2021]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Strengthening Country Capacity on Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response: Report of a South-East Asia Regional Meeting , 16-18 February 2016, Maldives [2016]
• Sri Lanka
  • Reproductive Health
    • Maternal mortality revisited: the application of the new ICD-MM classification system in reference to maternal deaths in Sri Lanka [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Systematic review of the magnitude and case fatality ratio for severe maternal morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa between 1995 and 2010 [2011]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Causes of maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review of studies published from 2015 to 2020 [2021]
• Suriname
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal mortality audit in Suriname between 2010 and 2014, a reproductive age mortality survey [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Classifying maternal deaths in Suriname using WHO ICD-MM: different interpretation by Physicians, National and International Maternal Death Review Committees [2021]
    • Childbirth outcomes and ethnic disparities in Suriname: a nationwide registry-based study in a middle-income country [2020]
• Sweden
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Maternal mortality in Sweden 1988–2007: more deaths than officially reported [2013]
• Taiwan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal Mortality in Taiwan: A Nationwide Data Linkage Study [2015]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Pregnancy-associated mortality in Taiwan, 2004–2011 [2016]
    • Underreporting of maternal mortality in Taiwan: A data linkage study [2015]
• Tanzania
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of maternal and perinatal death reviews in Tanzania: perceptions, processes and practice [2014]
• Thailand
  • Population Health Metrics
    • Improving the measurement of maternal mortality in Thailand using multiple data sources [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Examining the impact of introducing ICD-MM on observed trends in maternal mortality rates in the UK 2003–13 [2016]
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
    • Saving Mothers’ Lives: reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006–8: a review [2011]
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Maternal health in pregnancy: messages from the 2014 UK Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Death [2015]
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Scottish Confidential Audit of Severe Maternal Morbidity - Maternity Unit-specific data from the 10th annual report [2015]
  • NIHR Journals Library
    • Beyond maternal death: improving the quality of maternal care through national studies of ‘near-miss’ maternal morbidity [2016]
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
    • A national population-based cohort study to investigate inequalities in maternal mortality in the United Kingdom, 2009-17 [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Establishing a National Maternal Morbidity Outcome Indicator in England: A Population-Based Study Using Routine Hospital Data [2016]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Understanding the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Maternal Mortality [2022]
• United States
  • AJP Reports
    • Implementing Obstetric Early Warning Systems [2018]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity: Screening and Review [2016]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Maternal mortality in the United States: research gaps, opportunities, and priorities [2020]
    • Putting the “M” back in maternal-fetal medicine: A 5-year report card on a collaborative effort to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States [2019]
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the United States Using Enhanced Vital Records, 2016-2017 [2021]
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
    • Initiatives to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States: A Narrative Review [2020]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • The Impact of the Pregnancy Checkbox and Misclassification on Maternal Mortality Trends in the United States, 1999-2017 [2020]
    • Vital Signs: Pregnancy-Related Deaths, United States, 2011–2015, and Strategies for Prevention, 13 States, 2013–2017 [2019]
    • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths — United States, 2007–2016 [2019]
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States
    • Pregnancy-Related Deaths
  • International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS
    • Trends and Social Inequalities in Maternal Mortality in the United States, 1969-2018 [2021]
    • Trends and Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Geographic Disparities in Maternal Mortality from Indirect Obstetric Causes in the United States, 1999-2017 [2021]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Assessment of Incidence and Factors Associated With Severe Maternal Morbidity After Delivery Discharge Among Women in the US [2021]
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • U.S. Maternal Mortality Within a Global Context: Historical Trends, Current State, and Future Directions [2021]
  • Neoreviews
    • Maternal Mortality in the United States: Updates on Trends, Causes, and Solutions [2019]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Maternal Mortality in the United States: Recent Trends, Current Status, and Future Considerations [2021]
    • Social Determinants of Pregnancy-Related Mortality and Morbidity in the United States: A Systematic Review [2020]
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Among Indigenous Women in the United States [2020]
    • Standardized Severe Maternal Morbidity Review [2014]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #55: Counseling women at increased risk of maternal morbidity and mortality [2021]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #54: Assessing the risk of maternal morbidity and mortality [2021]
    • Reproductive services for women at high risk for maternal mortality: a report of the workshop [2020]
    • SMFM Special Report: Putting the “M” back in MFM: Addressing education about disparities in maternal outcomes and care [2018]
• Uzbekistan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Making Pregnancy Safer in Uzbekistan. Maternal mortality and morbidity audit. Activity report, 2002–2008 [2009]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Maternal mortality: Levels and trends 2000 to 2017 [2019]
    • Maternal mortality: Evidence brief [2019]
    • Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth: a guide for midwives and doctors [2017]
    • Time to respond. A report on the global implementation of Maternal Death Surveillance and Response [2016]
    • Maternal morbidity measurement tool pilot: study protocol [2016]
    • Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2015: Estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and the United Nations Population Division [2015]
    • Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality (EPMM) [2015]
    • Obstetric transition: the pathway towards ending preventable maternal deaths [2014]
    • Maternal near-miss audits to improve quality of care [2014]
    • Indirect causes of severe adverse maternal outcomes: a secondary analysis of the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health [2014]
    • Advanced maternal age and pregnancy outcomes: a multicountry assessment [2014]
    • WHO guidance for measuring maternal mortality from a census [2013]
    • Maternal Death Surveillance and Response [2013]
    • Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank estimates [2012]
    • Evaluating the quality of care for severe pregnancy complications: the WHO near-miss approach for maternal health [2011]
    • Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2008 [2010]
    • Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000-2010) with country profiles: taking stock of maternal, newborn and child survival [2010]
    • Clarifying WHO position on misoprostol use in the community to reduce maternal death: statement [2010]
    • Achieving millennium development goal 5: target 5A and 5B on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health [2009]
    • Maternal mortality: Fact sheet
    • Maternal and newborn data
    • Maternal Mortality in 2030
• Zambia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Impact of Pregnancy-Related Deaths on Female Life Expectancy in Zambia: Application of Life Table Techniques to Census Data [2015]
  • Population Health Metrics
    • Rural-urban differentials in pregnancy-related mortality in Zambia: estimates using data collected in a census [2015]
• {Related topics}
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    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Maternity services

• Afghanistan
  • BMC Public Health
    • Coverage and inequalities in maternal and child health interventions in Afghanistan [2016]
  • Conflict and Health
    • Availability and distribution of human resources for provision of comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care in Afghanistan: a cross-sectional study [2015]
• Africa
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Cost and impact of policies to remove and reduce fees for obstetric care in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Morocco [2016]
• Albania
  • PLoS ONE
    • Quality of Maternal and Neonatal Care in Albania, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan: A Systematic, Standard-Based, Participatory Assessment [2011]
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Maternity care in Australia: first national report on models of care, 2021 [2021]
    • National Core Maternity Indicators
  • Better Safer Care
    • Maternity and newborn services user guide
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Providing pregnancy care services
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Maternity shared care
  • Rural and Remote Health
    • Closing the Gap: how maternity services can contribute to reducing poor maternal infant health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women [2010]
  • WA Health, Government of Western Australia
    • Review of Maternity Services in Metropolitan Non Tertiary Public Hospitals [2015]
• Azerbaijan
  • BioMed Research International
    • The Effect of Maternal Healthcare on the Probability of Child Survival in Azerbaijan [2014]
• Bangladesh
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Perceptions of health care providers and patients on quality of care in maternal and neonatal health in fourteen Bangladesh government healthcare facilities: a mixed-method study [2015]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Progress in the utilization of antenatal and delivery care services in Bangladesh: where does the equity gap lie? [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Relationship between maternal healthcare utilisation and empowerment among women in Bangladesh: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study [2021]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Trends in equity in use of maternal health services in urban and rural Bangladesh [2016]
    • Social inequalities in the utilization of maternal care in Bangladesh: Have they widened or narrowed in recent years? [2014]
    • Equity in reproductive and maternal health services in Bangladesh [2013]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Public-sector Maternal Health Programmes and Services for Rural Bangladesh [2009]
• Benin
  • Reproductive Health
    • The effects of geographical accessibility to health facilities on antenatal care and delivery services utilization in Benin: a cross-sectional study [2021]
• Brazil
  • Reproductive Health
    • Adequacy of public maternal care services in Brazil [2016]
• Burkina Faso
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Evaluating quality of obstetric care in low-resource settings: Building on the literature to design tailor-made evaluation instruments - an illustration in Burkina Faso [2010]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The obstetric care subsidy policy in Burkina Faso: what are the effects after five years of implementation? Findings of a complex evaluation [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Reflections on the Unintended Consequences of the Promotion of Institutional Pregnancy and Birth Care in Burkina Faso [2016]
    • Reducing the Medical Cost of Deliveries in Burkina Faso Is Good for Everyone, Including the Poor [2012]
  • World Health Organization
    • Investing the marginal dollar for maternal and newborn health: geographic accessibility analysis for emergency obstetric care services in Burkina Faso [2016]
• Cambodia
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Sociodemographic characteristics associated with the utilization of maternal health services in Cambodia [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of the continuum of maternal health care in Cambodia: an analysis of the Cambodia demographic health survey 2014 [2021]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • A decade of improvements in equity of access to reproductive and maternal health services in Cambodia, 2000–2010 [2013]
  • World Health Organization
    • Investing the marginal dollar for maternal and newborn health: geographic accessibility analysis for emergency obstetric care services in Cambodia [2016]
• Cameroon
  • Reproductive Health
    • Predictors of skilled birth attendance among married women in Cameroon: further analysis of 2018 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
• Canada
  • Alberta Health Services
    • Criteria to Support Appropriate Level of Obstetrical Care [2020]
    • Obstetrical Triage Acuity Scale (OTAS) [2017]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • The safety of Canadian rural maternity services: a multi-jurisdictional cohort analysis [2015]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Midwifery Services for Socially Disadvantaged Populations: Review of Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2016]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Sustaining rural maternity and surgical care [2016]
    • New approaches for rural maternity care [2012]
  • CMAJ
    • Differences in obstetric care among nulliparous First Nations and non–First Nations women in British Columbia, Canada [2015]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Rural Maternity Care [2017]
    • The Roles of Multidisciplinary Team Members in the Care of Pregnant Women [2016]
  • Systematic Reviews
    • Immigrant women’s experiences of maternity-care services in Canada: a systematic review using a narrative synthesis [2015]
• China
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • China’s human resources for maternal and child health: a national sampling survey [2015]
  • Global Health Action
    • Disadvantaged populations in maternal health in China – Who and Why? [2013]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Analysis of inequality in maternal and child health outcomes and mortality from 2000 to 2013 in China [2017]
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Maternal education level and maternal healthcare utilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: an analysis of the multiple indicator cluster survey 2017/18 [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Trends of maternal health service coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a pooled cross-sectional study of MICS 2010 to 2018 [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Distribution and quality of emergency obstetric care service delivery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: it is time to improve regulatory mechanisms [2019]
• Developing countries
  • PLoS Medicine
    • The Effectiveness of Emergency Obstetric Referral Interventions in Developing Country Settings: A Systematic Review [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Measuring Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Developing Countries Using Demographic and Health Surveys [2016]
• East Africa
  • BMC Public Health
    • Temporal trends in spatial inequalities of maternal and newborn health services among four east African countries, 1999–2015 [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Equality in Maternal and Newborn Health: Modelling Geographic Disparities in Utilisation of Care in Five East African Countries [2016]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Summary report on the regional training workshop on promoting maternal and newborn health quality of care, Rabat, Morocco 5–7 December 2016 [2017]
• Egypt
  • PLoS ONE
    • Socio-Economic Gradients in Maternal and Child Health-Seeking Behaviours in Egypt: Systematic Literature Review and Evidence Synthesis [2014]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Optimum maternal healthcare service utilization and infant mortality in Ethiopia [2021]
    • Distribution of maternity waiting homes and their correlation with perinatal mortality and direct obstetric complication rates in Ethiopia [2019]
    • Disparities in the use of antenatal care service in Ethiopia over a period of fifteen years [2013]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Inequalities in adherence to the continuum of maternal and child health service utilization in Ethiopia: multilevel analysis [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Coverage of antenatal, intrapartum, and newborn care in 104 districts of Ethiopia: A before and after study four years after the launch of the national Community-Based Newborn Care programme [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Inequities in maternal health services utilization in Ethiopia 2000–2016: magnitude, trends, and determinants [2018]
• Europe
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Assessing the performance of maternity care in Europe: a critical exploration of tools and indicators [2015]
  • European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
    • Organisation of perinatal care [2018]
    • Maternal transfer for specialist care [2018]
    • Collaboration with parents in ante- and perinatal care [2018]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Midwifery Assessment Tool for Education (MATE) (2020) [2020]
    • What is the evidence on the reduction of inequalities in accessibility and quality of maternal health care delivery for migrants? A review of the existing evidence in the WHO European Region (2016) [2016]
    • Improving quality of antenatal and postpartum care and referral system (2014) [2014]
    • Hospital care for mothers and newborn babies quality assessment and improvement tool [2014]
    • Assessment tool for the quality of outpatient antepartum and postpartum care for women and newborns [2013]
    • Making pregnancy safer : tool for assessing the performance of the health system in improving maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health [2009]
    • Making pregnancy safer : assessment tool for the quality of hospital care for mothers and newborn babies [2009]
• Ghana
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Is the National Health Insurance Scheme helping pregnant women in accessing health services? Analysis of the 2014 Ghana demographic and Health survey [2021]
    • Are Ghanaian women meeting the WHO recommended maternal healthcare (MCH) utilisation? Evidence from a national survey [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Health insurance determines antenatal, delivery and postnatal care utilisation: evidence from the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveillance data [2016]
• Haiti
  • World Health Organization
    • Free obstetric care in Haiti [2010]
• High-income countries
  • BMJ Open
    • Impact of obstetric unit closures, travel time and distance to obstetric services on maternal and neonatal outcomes in high-income countries: a systematic review [2020]
• Iceland
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Challenges in migrant women’s maternity care in a high-income country: A population-based cohort study of maternal and perinatal outcomes [2021]
• India
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Widespread non-adherence to evidence-based maternity care guidelines: a population-based cluster randomised household survey [2014]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Inefficiency, heterogeneity and spillover effects in maternal care in India: a spatial stochastic frontier analysis [2015]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal health care service utilization among young married women in India, 1992–2016: trends and determinants [2021]
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Has Muslim Got Benefited from the National Health Mission? A Situational Analysis of Maternal Health Services in India [2020]
  • Human Resources for Health
    • Does engagement with frontline health workers improve maternal and child healthcare utilisation and outcomes in India? [2021]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • What does quality of care mean for maternal health providers from two vulnerable states of India? Case study of Bihar and Jharkhand [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Referrals between Public Sector Health Institutions for Women with Obstetric High Risk, Complications, or Emergencies in India – A Systematic Review [2016]
    • High Spending on Maternity Care in India: What Are the Factors Explaining It? [2016]
  • Public Health Reviews
    • Social determinants of maternal health: a scoping review of factors influencing maternal mortality and maternal health service use in India [2020]
• Indonesia
  • BMC Public Health
    • The determinant of health insurance ownership among pregnant women in Indonesia [2021]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Trends and inequities in use of maternal health care services in Indonesia, 1986–2012 [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Analysis of antenatal care, intranatal care and postnatal care utilization: Findings from the 2017 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Geographic information system for improving maternal and newborn health: recommendations for policy and programs [2017]
    • Scaling up quality care for mothers and newborns around the time of birth: an overview of methods and analyses of intervention-specific bottlenecks and solutions [2015]
  • Gaceta Sanitaria
    • An overview of the implementation of the continuity of care model in maternal health services: A literature review [2021]
  • Implementation Science
    • Expanding the evidence base for global recommendations on health systems: strengths and challenges of the OptimizeMNH guidance process [2016]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Measuring quality of care for all women and newborns: how do we know if we are doing it right? A review of facility assessment tools [2019]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Measuring Coverage in MNCH: New Findings, New Strategies, and Recommendations for Action [2013]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Implementation Manual for Developing a National Network of Maternity Units [2020]
• Ireland
  • Department of Health Ireland
    • Stratification of clinical risk in pregnancy [2020]
    • Irish Maternity Early Warning System (IMEWS) Version 2 [2019]
    • Clinical Handover in Maternity Services [2014]
  • Health Information and Quality Authority
    • Guide to maternity standards monitoring programme - revised [2019]
    • National Standards for Safer Better Maternity Services [2016]
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Irish Maternity Early Warning System (IMEWS) [2014]
• Jordan
  • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
    • Evaluation of maternal and newborn health services in Jordan [2018]
• Kazakhstan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Support for maternal and child health in Kazakhstan [2011]
    • Improvement of maternal and child health in Kazakhstan [2011]
• Kenya
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Impact of free maternity policies in Kenya: an interrupted time-series analysis [2021]
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
    • Examining the Implementation of the Free Maternity Services Policy in Kenya: A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Quality of maternity care and its determinants along the continuum in Kenya: A structural equation modeling analysis [2017]
• Kyrgyzstan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Approaches to an integrated supervisory system in Kyrgyzstan for better maternal and child health [2009]
• Laos
  • BMC Public Health
    • Trends of socioeconomic inequality in using maternal health care services in Lao People’s Democratic Republic from year 2000 to 2012 [2018]
  • World Health Organization
    • Investing the marginal dollar for maternal and newborn health: geographic accessibility analysis for emergency obstetric care services in Lao People's Democratic Republic [2016]
• Lesotho
  • PLoS ONE
    • Comprehensive Approach to Improving Maternal Health and Achieving MDG 5: Report from the Mountains of Lesotho [2012]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Social capital and maternal and child health services uptake in low- and middle-income countries: mixed methods systematic review [2021]
    • Assessment of facility readiness for implementing the WHO/UNICEF standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities – experiences from UNICEF’s implementation in three countries of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Effects of demand-side financing on utilisation, experiences and outcomes of maternity care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2014]
    • Cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve the utilization and provision of maternal and newborn health care in low-income and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review [2014]
  • Global Health Action
    • Strategies for improving health care seeking for maternal and newborn illnesses in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]
    • Assessing emergency obstetric care provision in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the application of global guidelines [2016]
    • The use of cell phones and radio communication systems to reduce delays in getting help for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review [2015]
  • Healthcare
    • Challenges in Maternal and Child Health Services Delivery and Access during Pandemics or Public Health Disasters in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2021]
  • Implementation Science
    • Barriers and enablers to guideline implementation strategies to improve obstetric care practice in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of qualitative evidence [2016]
  • International Journal for Quality in Health Care
    • Criterion-based clinical audit to assess quality of obstetrical care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2011]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Utilisation of Skilled Birth Attendant in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Trajectories and Key Sociodemographic Factors [2021]
• Low-income countries
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal health interventions in resource limited countries: a systematic review of packages, impacts and factors for change [2011]
• Malawi
  • World Health Organization
    • Investing the marginal dollar for maternal and newborn health: geographic accessibility analysis for emergency obstetric care services in Malawi [2016]
• Mexico
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Measuring progress in maternal and newborn health care in Mexico: validating indicators of health system contact and quality of care [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • A Performance Analysis of Public Expenditure on Maternal Health in Mexico [2016]
• Moldova
  • International Journal for Quality in Health Care
    • Putting theory into practice: the introduction of obstetric near-miss case reviews in the Republic of Moldova [2012]
• Myanmar
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Maternal and child health voucher scheme in Myanmar: a review of early stage implementation [2016]
• Nepal
  • BioMed Research International
    • Trends and Inequalities in Use of Maternal Health Care Services in Nepal: Strategy in the Search for Improvements [2017]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Trends in national and subnational wealth related inequalities in use of maternal health care services in Nepal: an analysis using demographic and health surveys (2001–2016) [2021]
    • Intersectional (in) equities in contact coverage of maternal and newborn health services in Nepal: insights from a nationwide cross-sectional household survey [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Basic emergency obstetric and newborn care service availability and readiness in Nepal: Analysis of the 2015 Nepal Health Facility Survey [2021]
  • Public Health Reviews
    • Improving maternal health services through social accountability interventions in Nepal: an analytical review of existing literature [2020]
• Netherlands
  • PLoS ONE
    • Geographical, Ethnic and Socio-Economic Differences in Utilization of Obstetric Care in the Netherlands [2016]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • New Zealand Maternity Clinical Indicators 2019 [2022]
    • HISO 10050:2022 Maternity Care Summary Standard [2022]
    • Primary Maternity Services Notice 2021 - Guide [2021]
    • Primary Maternity Services Notice 2021 [2021]
    • Maternal Fetal Medicine [2021]
    • Integrated Maternity and Child Health Services Outcomes Evaluation Report [2016]
    • Section 88 Primary Maternity Services Notice 2007 [2015]
    • Maternity Consumer Survey 2014 [2015]
    • Evaluation of the Maternity Quality and Safety Programme [2015]
    • Enrolling Babies at Birth [2014]
    • Comparative Study of Maternity Systems [2013]
    • Guidelines for Consultation with Obstetric and Related Medical Services (Referral Guidelines) [2012]
    • New Zealand Maternity Standards [2011]
    • Hospital based Maternity Events 2006 [2010]
    • National Maternity Monitoring Group
• Nigeria
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Patterns and determinants of dropout from maternity care continuum in Nigeria [2016]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Maternal and child health interventions in Nigeria: a systematic review of published studies from 1990 to 2014 [2015]
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Determinants of antenatal care, institutional delivery and postnatal care services utilization in Nigeria [2015]
• Pakistan
  • Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
    • Bayesian Analysis of Trends in Utilization of Maternal Healthcare Services in Pakistan during 2006-2018 [2021]
  • Conflict and Health
    • Impact of service provision platforms on maternal and newborn health in conflict areas and their acceptability in Pakistan: a systematic review [2015]
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • Who is excluded and how? An analysis of community spaces for maternal and child health in Pakistan [2015]
  • Healthcare Policy
    • Reforms in Pakistan: Decisive Times for Improving Maternal and Child Health [2012]
• Republic of Guinea
  • Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
    • Realizing universal health coverage for maternal health services in the Republic of Guinea: the use of workforce projections to design health labor market interventions [2014]
• Rwanda
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Quality of antenatal care services in Rwanda: assessing practices of health care providers [2018]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Temporal trends in coverage, quality and equity of maternal and child health services in Rwanda, 2000–2015 [2020]
• Sierra Leone
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Measuring coverage of maternal and child health services using routine health facility data: a Sierra Leone case study [2021]
• South Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Growing inequities in maternal health in South Africa: a comparison of serial national household surveys [2016]
• South Asia
  • Globalization and Health
    • Approaches towards improving the quality of maternal and newborn health services in South Asia: challenges and opportunities for healthcare systems [2018]
• South Pacific
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Alternative measures of spatial distribution and availability of health facilities for the delivery of emergency obstetric services in island communities [2014]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Regional Strategic Directions for strengthening Midwifery in the South-East Asia Region 2020–2024 [2020]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Quality of care in the free maternal healthcare era in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of providers’ and managers’ perceptions [2021]
    • Quality and women’s satisfaction with maternal referral practices in sub-Saharan African low and lower-middle income countries: a systematic review [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal healthcare utilsation and complete childhood vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study of 29 nationally representative surveys [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Women empowerment and skilled birth attendance in sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country analysis [2021]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Governing the implementation of Emergency Obstetric Care: experiences of Rural District Health Managers, Tanzania [2014]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Subnational variation for care at birth in Tanzania: is this explained by place, people, money or drugs? [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Health facility service availability and readiness to provide basic emergency obstetric and newborn care in a low-resource setting: evidence from a Tanzania National Survey [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Addressing the huge poor–rich gap of inequalities in accessing safe childbirth care: A first step to achieving universal maternal health coverage in Tanzania [2021]
    • Enhancing Maternal and Perinatal Health in Under-Served Remote Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Tanzanian Model [2016]
• Turkey
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
    • Mother-friendly hospital programme of Turkey: national intervention to improve the quality of maternity services [2021]
• Turkmenistan
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Making pregnancy safer: assessment of the safety and quality of hospital care for mothers and newborn babies in Turkmenistan [2010]
• Uganda
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Can routine health facility data be used to monitor subnational coverage of maternal, newborn and child health services in Uganda? [2021]
    • Determinants of maternal health services utilization in Uganda [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Developing a set of consensus indicators to support maternity service quality improvement: using Core Outcome Set methodology including a Delphi process [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Specific antenatal interventions for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) pregnant women at high risk of poor birth outcomes in the United Kingdom: a scoping review [2015]
    • Incident reviews in UK maternity units: a systematic appraisal of the quality of local guidelines [2015]
  • BMJ Open
    • Costing the impact of interventions during pregnancy in the UK: a systematic review of economic evaluations [2020]
  • Care Quality Commission
    • Maternity services survey 2019 [2020]
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Safer maternity care: progress and next steps
    • Safer maternity care
    • Maternity care facilities: planning and design (HBN 09-02)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Safe midwifery staffing for maternity settings [2015]
  • NHS Digital
    • Maternity Services Monthly Statistics
  • NHS England
    • Equity and equality: Guidance for local maternity systems [2021]
    • Transforming perinatal safety [2020]
    • Implementing a revised perinatal quality surveillance model [2020]
    • Maternity DMA Report – Digital Maturity Assessment of Maternity Services in England 2018: Supporting documents [2018]
    • Maternity DMA Report – Digital Maturity Assessment of Maternity Services in England 2018 [2018]
    • Implementing Better Births: A resource pack for Local Maternity Systems [2017]
  • Obstetric Medicine
    • Provision of acute medicine services for pregnant women in UK hospitals: Data from the Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit 2019 [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Local guidelines for admission to UK midwifery units compared with national guidance: A national survey using the UK Midwifery Study System (UKMidSS) [2020]
    • External validity of prevalence estimates from the national maternity surveys in England: The impact of response rate [2020]
  • Society for Acute Medicine
    • Provision of acute medicine services for pregnant women in UK hospitals: Data from the Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit 2019 [2021]
• United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Maternal-Fetal Intervention and Fetal Care Centers [2011]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Levels of Maternal Care [2019]
    • Hospital Disaster Preparedness for Obstetricians and Facilities Providing Maternity Care [2017]
    • Hospital-Based Triage of Obstetric Patients [2016]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • US and territory telemedicine policies: identifying gaps in perinatal care [2016]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • United States and territory policies supporting maternal and neonatal transfer: review of transport and reimbursement [2015]
  • Medical Care
    • Mapping the Location of Health Centers in Relation to “Maternity Care Deserts” [2021]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • SMFM Special Statement: Who’s who in patient safety and quality for maternal healthcare in the United States [2020]
    • SMFM Special Statement: A maternal transport briefing form and checklist [2020]
    • SMFM Special Statement: The Affordable Care Act’s foundation of coverage: essential health benefits are essential [2019]
    • The development and implementation of checklists in obstetrics [2017]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Special Report: Current approaches to measuring quality of care in obstetrics [2016]
• Vietnam
  • Global Health Action
    • Multiple vulnerabilities and maternal healthcare in Vietnam: findings from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, 2000, 2006, and 2011 [2016]
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
    • Shaping the Health Policy Agenda: The Case of Safe Motherhood Policy in Vietnam [2015]
  • Journal of Rural Medicine : JRM
    • Trends in inequalities in utilization of reproductive health services from 2000 to 2011 in Vietnam [2015]
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Maternal health care : policies, technical standards and services accessibility in eight countries in the Western Pacific Region [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Strengthening quality midwifery education: WHO meeting report, July 25-26, 2016: in support of Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health 2016–30, Global strategy for human resources for health: workforce 2030 [2017]
    • Standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities [2016]
    • Midwives voices, midwives realities. Findings from a global consultation on providing quality midwifery care [2016]
    • The World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health project at a glance: the power of collaboration [2014]
    • WHO Recommendations: Optimizing Health Worker Roles to Improve Access to Key Maternal and Newborn Health Interventions Through Task Shifting [2012]
    • The World Health Organization multicountry survey on maternal and newborn health: study protocol [2011]
    • Strengthening midwifery toolkit [2011]
    • Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health [2010]
    • Accelerated implementation of maternal and newborn continuum of care as part of improving reproductive health: mapping of in-country activities: joint country support [2010]
    • Monitoring emergency obstetric care : a handbook [2009]
    • Standards for Maternal and Neonatal care [2007]
    • The effect of maternal–newborn ill-health on households: economic vulnerability and social implications [2006]
    • The costs of maternal–newborn illness and mortality [2006]
    • Impact on economic growth of investing in maternal–newborn health [2006]
• Zambia
  • Ministry of Health Zambia
    • Zambia national maternal and neonatal services referral guidelines [2018]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Medications in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Critical caveats in using product information/pregnancy categories for pregnant or breastfeeding patients [2018]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Prescribing medicines in pregnancy database
    • Medicines
• Brazil
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • The organization, weaknesses, and challenges of the control of thalidomide in Brazil: A review [2020]
• Cameroon
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • First trimester medication use in pregnancy in Cameroon: a multi-hospital survey [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Safety of tacrolimus in pregnancy [2014]
    • FDA pregnancy risk categories and the CPS: Do they help or are they a hindrance? [2010]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Cancer Chemotherapy and Pregnancy [2013]
• Developed countries
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
    • Prescription drug use during pregnancy in developed countries: a systematic review [2011]
• Ethiopia
  • SAGE Open Medicine
    • Prescription drugs use during pregnancy in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • EUROmediCAT
    • EUROmediCAT signal detection: an evaluation of selected congenital anomaly-medication associations [2016]
    • EUROmediCAT signal detection: a systematic method for identifying potential teratogenic medication [2016]
    • Improving Information on Maternal Medication Use by Linking Prescription Data to Congenital Anomaly Registers: A EUROmediCAT Study [2015]
    • EUROmediCAT Recommendations for European Pharmacovigilance concerning safety of medication use in pregnancy [2015]
• Europe, United States
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
    • Assuring Access to Safe Medicines in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding [2021]
• France
  • Drug Safety
    • Dispensing of Potentially Harmful Prescription Drugs in 1.8 Million Pregnant Women in France: A Nationwide Study Based on Two Risk Classification Systems [2021]
• International
  • Journal of Family & Reproductive Health
    • Knowledge, Information Sources, and Institutional Trust of Patients Regarding Medication Use in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review [2021]
  • Seminars in Perinatology
    • Epidemiology of Medications Use in Pregnancy [2015]
• Italy
  • Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
    • Medication prescriptions before, during and after pregnancy in Italy: a population-based study [2021]
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
    • The Italian Network for Monitoring Medication Use During Pregnancy (MoM-Net): Experience and Perspectives [2021]
• Japan
  • Global Health & Medicine
    • The advances in dealing with the safety of medicated drugs in pregnancy [2021]
• Middle East
  • Oman Medical Journal
    • Herbal Medicines Use During Pregnancy: A Review from the Middle East [2015]
• New Zealand
  • PLoS ONE
    • Patterns of prescription medicine dispensing before and during pregnancy in New Zealand, 2005–2015 [2020]
• Norway
  • BMJ Open
    • Longitudinal changes in neurodevelopmental outcomes between 18 and 36 months in children with prenatal triptan exposure: findings from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study [2016]
• Suriname
  • Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
    • Prevalence and safety of prescription medicine use during pregnancy in the Republic of Suriname in the year 2017: a pharmacoepidemiological analysis [2021]
• Sweden
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • Drug use during pregnancy in Sweden – assessed by the Prescribed Drug Register and the Medical Birth Register [2011]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Use of drugs to treat symptoms and acute conditions during pregnancy in outpatient care in Switzerland between 2014 and 2018: analysis of Swiss healthcare claims data [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Medicines with teratogenic potential: what is effective contraception and how often is pregnancy testing needed? [2019]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Developing New Pharmaceutical Treatments for Obstetric Conditions [2015]
  • UKTIS
    • Maternal exposure
• United States
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Hydroxychloroquine early in pregnancy and risk of birth defects [2021]
  • American Journal of Perinatology
    • Improving Safe and Effective Use of Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: Workshop Summary [2017]
  • American Journal of Transplantation
    • Mycophenolate Fetal Toxicity and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies [2013]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Developing a systematic approach to safer medication use during pregnancy: summary of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—convened meeting [2014]
    • Medicine and Pregnancy
  • Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
    • The Need for Safer Medication Use in Pregnancy [2013]
  • Food and Drug Administration
    • Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling (Drugs) Final Rule [2014]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Evaluation of Drug Labels Following the 2015 Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule [2020]
  • Pharmacy and Therapeutics
    • The New Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule [2016]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Gabapentin in pregnancy and the risk of adverse neonatal and maternal outcomes: A population-based cohort study nested in the US Medicaid Analytic eXtract dataset [2020]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Prenatal acetaminophen use and outcomes in children [2017]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Medications and breastfeeding

Multiple pregnancy

• Botswana
  • BMJ Open
    • Prevalence and outcomes of twin pregnancies in Botswana: a national birth outcomes surveillance study [2021]
• Brazil
  • PLoS ONE
    • Twin pregnancy and perinatal outcomes: Data from ‘Birth in Brazil Study’ [2021]
• Canada
  • Accelerating Change Transformation Team
    • Twin and Multiple Pregnancies [2017]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Examining the provisional guidelines for weight gain in twin pregnancies: a retrospective cohort study [2017]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Ultrasound in Twin Pregnancies [2017]
    • Prenatal Screening for and Diagnosis of Aneuploidy in Twin Pregnancies [2017]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Twin delivery [2020]
• Eastern and Southern Africa
  • PLoS Medicine
    • National policies and care provision in pregnancy and childbirth for twins in Eastern and Southern Africa: A mixed-methods multi-country study [2019]
• Europe
  • PLoS ONE
    • Variations in Multiple Birth Rates and Impact on Perinatal Outcomes in Europe [2016]
• Finland
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal complications in twin pregnancies in Finland during 1987–2014: a retrospective study [2019]
• International
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Outcomes in intervention and management of multiple pregnancies trials: A systematic review [2021]
  • European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences
    • Impact of maternal age on perinatal outcomes in twin pregnancies: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Practice Guidelines: role of ultrasound in twin pregnancy [2016]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Review of International Clinical Guidelines Related to Prenatal Screening during Monochorionic Pregnancies [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Micronutrients in Multiple Pregnancies—The Knowns and Unknowns: A Systematic Review [2021]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Management of Multiple Pregnancy [2012]
• Japan
  • Scientific Reports
    • Application of Japanese guidelines for gestational weight gain to multiple pregnancy outcomes and its optimal range in 101,336 Japanese women [2019]
• Low and middle income countries
  • World Health Organization
    • Mode and timing of twin delivery and perinatal outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis of the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health [2014]
• Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Gestational age assessment and determination of chorionicity in multiple pregnancy [2013]
• Taiwan
  • Pediatrics and Neonatology
    • Nationwide Twin Birth Weight Percentiles by Gestational Age in Taiwan [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Updated guidance for the management of twin and triplet pregnancies from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, UK: What's new that may improve perinatal outcomes? [2020]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Noninvasive prenatal screening in twin pregnancies with cell-free DNA using the IONA test: a prospective multicenter study [2021]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Twin and triplet pregnancy [2019]
    • Multiple pregnancy: twin and triplet pregnancies [2019]
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Multiple Births Midwife Standard [2021]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy, Management [2016]
• United States
  • American College of Radiology
    • Multiple Gestations
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Multiple Births
  • International Journal of Obesity
    • Pregnancy weight gain in twin gestations and maternal and child health outcomes at 5 years [2021]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • Weight gain in twin gestations: Are the Institute of Medicine guidelines optimal for neonatal outcomes? [2015]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • SMFM Special Statement: Updated checklists for management of monochorionic twin pregnancy [2020]
    • SMFM Special Statement: State of the science on multifetal gestations: unique considerations and importance [2019]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Musculoskeletal diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy [2018]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Pelvic girdle pain
    • Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Europe
  • European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology
    • EULAR recommendations for a core data set for pregnancy registries in rheumatology [2021]
    • The EULAR points to consider for use of antirheumatic drugs before pregnancy, and during pregnancy and lactation [2016]
• High-income countries
  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
    • Pregnancy in women with psoriatic arthritis: A systematic literature review of disease activity and adverse pregnancy outcomes [2021]
• International
  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
    • Pregnancy in axial spondyloarthropathy: A systematic review & meta-analysis [2020]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Management of Pelvic Girdle Pain in Pregnancy and Postpartum [2012]
• Middle East
  • Clinical Rheumatology
    • Enhancing the care of women with rheumatic diseases during pregnancy: challenges and unmet needs in the Middle East [2015]
• Taiwan
  • Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal
    • Pregnancy outcomes and perinatal complications of Asian mothers with juvenile idiopathic arthritis – a case-control registry study [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Rheumatology
    • BSR and BHPR guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding—Part II: analgesics and other drugs used in rheumatology practice [2016]
    • BSR and BHPR guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding—Part I: standard and biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and corticosteroids [2016]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Management of pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy [2021]
• United States
  • American College of Rheumatology
    • 2020 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Reproductive Health in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, hyperemesis gravidarum

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Managing nausea and vomiting in pregnancy in a primary care setting [2016]
  • Better Safer Care
    • Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) – assessment and management
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Nausea and vomiting
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
    • Guideline for Management of Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy and Hyperemesis Gravidarum [2019]
• Canada
  • Health Canada
    • DICLECTIN (doxylamine and pyridoxine combination) - Assessing Safety in pregnancy [2016]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • The Management of Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy [2016]
• Canada, United States, United Kingdom
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Comparison of Pregnancy Outcomes of Patients Treated With Ondansetron vs Alternative Antiemetic Medications in a Multinational, Population-Based Cohort [2021]
• Finland
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Incidence and risk factors of hyperemesis gravidarum: A national register-based study in Finland, 2005-2017 [2020]
• International
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • The windsor definition for hyperemesis gravidarum: A multistakeholder international consensus definition [2021]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Hyperemesis gravidarum and neonatal outcomes: A systematic review of observational studies [2021]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Hyperemesis and Nausea/Vomiting in Pregnancy [2015]
• Netherlands
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Recurrence, postponing pregnancy, and termination rates after hyperemesis gravidarum: Follow up of the MOTHER study [2021]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Pregnancy complications and birth outcomes among women experiencing nausea only or nausea and vomiting during pregnancy in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study [2015]
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • Antiemetic Prescription Fills in Pregnancy: A Drug Utilization Study Among 762,437 Pregnancies in Norway [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy is not just ‘morning sickness’: data from a prospective cohort study in the UK [2020]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Management of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy [2021]
    • Doxylamine/pyridoxine (Xonvea) for treating nausea and vomiting of pregnancy [2019]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Management of Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy and Hyperemesis Gravidarum [2016]
• United States
  • Pharmacology
    • Hyperemesis Gravidarum: A Review of Recent Literature [2017]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Digestive system diseases in pregnancy

Neural tube defects, folic acid

• Africa
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Birth prevalence of neural tube defects and associated risk factors in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Magnitude and determinants of neural tube defect in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Scientifica
    • Prevalence of Spina Bifida among Newborns in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
• Argentina
  • Journal of Community Genetics
    • The use of a Toolkit for health needs assessment on neural tube defects in Argentina [2013]
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Monitoring the health impacts of mandatory folic acid and iodine fortification 2016 [2016]
    • Folic acid & iodine fortification [2016]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Folic acid and risk of twinning: a systematic review of the recent literature, July 1994 to July 2006 [2007]
• Brazil
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Recommendations for folate intake in women: implications for public health strategies [2010]
• Cameroon
  • Advances in Nutrition
    • Review of Existing Models to Predict Reductions in Neural Tube Defects Due to Folic Acid Fortification and Model Results Using Data from Cameroon [2021]
• Canada
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Periconceptional intake of folic acid among low-risk women in Canada: summary of a workshop aiming to align prenatal folic acid supplement composition with current expert guidelines [2018]
  • BCGuidelines
    • Folate Deficiency - Investigation & Management [2012]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Folate Testing: A Review of the Diagnostic Accuracy, Clinical Utility, Cost-Effectiveness and Guidelines [2015]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Folate and neural tube defects: The role of supplements and food fortification [2016]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Folic Acid Use among Pregnant Women in Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis, and Pregnancy Management for Fetal Neural Tube Defects [2021]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Socioeconomic inequality in periconceptional folic acid supplementation in China: a census of 0.9 million women in their first trimester of pregnancy [2017]
  • China CDC Weekly
    • Folic Acid Status and Associated Factors for Pregnant Chinese Women — China, 2015 [2021]
• Costa Rica
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Neural Tube Defects in Costa Rica, 1987–2012: Origins and Development of Birth Defect Surveillance and Folic Acid Fortification [2015]
• Denmark, Norway
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Association Between Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation and Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring in Birth Cohorts From Denmark and Norway [2019]
• Denmark, Sweden
  • BioMed Research International
    • Ultrasound in Prenatal Diagnostics and Its Impact on the Epidemiology of Spina Bifida in a National Cohort from Denmark with a Comparison to Sweden [2018]
• Ethiopia
  • Global Pediatric Health
    • Magnitude and Associated Factors of Neural Tube Defects in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • EUROCAT
    • Prevention of Neural Tube Defects in Europe: A Public Health Failure [2021]
• France
  • Nutrients
    • Prevention of Neural Tube Defects by Folic Acid Supplementation: A National Population-Based Study [2020]
    • Social Inequalities in Prenatal Folic Acid Supplementation: Results from the ELFE Cohort [2019]
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • The mandatory fortification of staple foods with folic acid: a current controversy in Germany [2011]
• High and upper middle income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost-effectiveness of mandatory folic acid fortification of flours in prevention of neural tube defects: A systematic review [2021]
• High-income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Neonatal and infant mortality associated with spina bifida: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• India
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • Indian Perspective on Clinical Aspects, Usage, and Guidelines of Folic Acid [2014]
• International
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
    • Food Fortification With Folic Acid for Prevention of Spina Bifida and Anencephaly: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Evidence Evaluation for Policy-Making [2021]
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
    • Estimates of global and regional prevalence of neural tube defects for 2015: a systematic analysis [2018]
  • Birth Defects Research
    • A 2019 global update on folic acid-preventable spina bifida and anencephaly [2021]
  • EUROCAT
    • Analysis of Mortality among Neonates and Children with Spina Bifida: An International Registry-Based Study, 2001-2012 [2019]
  • Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • Folic acid supplementation for pregnant women and those planning pregnancy: 2015 update [2015]
  • Nutrients
    • Folic Acid Fortification and Neural Tube Defect Risk: Analysis of the Food Fortification Initiative Dataset [2020]
• Israel
  • BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
    • Parity and the use of folic acid supplementation during pregnancy [2019]
• Japan
  • Congenital Anomalies
    • Preconceptional folic acid supplementation in Japan [2017]
• Latin America
  • PLoS ONE
    • Neural tube defects: Sex ratio changes after fortification with folic acid [2018]
  • Public Health Nutrition
    • Neural tube defects in Latin America and the impact of fortification: a literature review [2014]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Maternal folic acid supplementation and infant birthweight in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2020]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Folate/folic acid
  • Office of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Committee, New Zealand
    • The Health Benefits and Risks of Folic Acid Fortification of Food [2018]
  • Starship
    • Neural Tube Defects - management of infant [2017]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Folic acid supplementation, dietary folate intake during pregnancy and risk for spontaneous preterm delivery: a prospective observational cohort study [2014]
• Oman
  • Ministry of Health Oman
    • Spina bifida and birth outcome before and after fortification of white flour with iron and folic acid in Oman [2008]
• Pakistan
  • Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
    • Neural tube defects, their implications and solutions in Muslim society [2021]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Folate supplementation during the preconception period, pregnancy and puerperium. Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Guidelines [2017]
• Slovenia
  • Nutrients
    • Dietary Intake of Folate and Assessment of the Folate Deficiency Prevalence in Slovenia Using Serum Biomarkers [2021]
• Spain
  • Nutrients
    • The Use of Lower or Higher Than Recommended Doses of Folic Acid Supplements during Pregnancy Is Associated with Child Attentional Dysfunction at 4–5 Years of Age in the INMA Project [2021]
• Switzerland
  • Nutrients
    • Inadequate Status and Low Awareness of Folate in Switzerland—A Call to Strengthen Public Health Measures to Ensure Sufficient Intakes [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • Birth Defects Research
    • Maternal ethnicity and the prevalence of British pregnancies affected by neural tube defects [2021]
  • Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology
    • Knowledge and periconceptional use of folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects in ethnic communities in the United Kingdom: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
  • HSC Public Health Agency
    • Folic acid and Vitamin D guidelines for health professionals [2017]
  • JRSM Open
    • Folates, folic acid and preconception care – a review [2021]
  • Public Health England
    • Update on folic acid [2017]
    • Adding folic acid to flour
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Folic Acid Supplementation [2017]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Folic Acid for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects [2012]
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
    • Fortification of corn masa flour with folic acid in the United States: an overview of the evidence [2014]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Neural Tube Defects in Pregnancies Among Women With Diagnosed HIV Infection — 15 Jurisdictions, 2013–2017 [2020]
    • Updated Estimates of Neural Tube Defects Prevented by Mandatory Folic Acid Fortification — United States, 1995–2011 [2015]
    • Supplement Use and Other Characteristics Among Pregnant Women with a Previous Pregnancy Affected by a Neural Tube Defect — United States, 1997–2009 [2015]
    • Folic Acid
  • Nutrients
    • Impact of Voluntary Folic Acid Fortification of Corn Masa Flour on RBC Folate Concentrations in the U.S. (NHANES 2011–2018) [2021]
  • Pediatrics
    • Prenatal Decision-Making for Myelomeningocele: Can We Minimize Bias and Variability? [2015]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Folic Acid for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects: Preventive Medication [2017]
• Vietnam
  • Nutrients
    • Low Prevalence of Folic Acid Supplementation during Pregnancy: A Multicenter Study in Vietnam [2019]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Monitoring flour fortification to maximize health benefits: a manual for millers, regulators, and programme managers [2021]
    • Guideline: optimal serum and red blood cell folate concentrations in women of reproductive age for prevention of neural tube defects [2015]
    • Serum and red blood cell folate concentrations for assessing folate status in populations [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Fetal therapy

Neurologic and mental disorders in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Management of bipolar disorder over the perinatal period [2016]
    • Epilepsy in pregnancy: a collaborative team effort of obstetricians, neurologists and primary care physicians for a successful outcome [2014]
  • Centre of Perinatal Excellence
    • Mental health care in the perinatal period: Australian clinical practice guideline [2017]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Pregnancy care for women with severe mental illness
    • Assessing psychosocial factors that affect mental health
  • Fertility Society of Australia
    • Effects of mental illness and its treatment on fertility and pregnancy health [2021]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Maternal mortality and psychiatric morbidity in the perinatal period: challenges and opportunities for prevention in the Australian setting [2007]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders [2018]
    • Perinatal mental health: an area of specialty [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Antiseizure drugs for women with epilepsy [2020]
  • Canadian Pharmacists Journal
    • Antiseizure drugs and women: Challenges with contraception and pregnancy [2020]
  • CMAJ
    • Perinatal suicide in Ontario, Canada: a 15-year population-based study [2017]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Best practice guidelines for mental health disorders in the perinatal period [2014]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Pregnancy and Women's Mental Health in Canada
• Denmark
  • Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
    • Associations Between ADHD Medication Use in Pregnancy and Severe Malformations Based on Prenatal and Postnatal Diagnoses: A Danish Registry-Based Study [2021]
  • Psychiatry Research
    • Prescription patterns of benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine-related drugs in the peripartum period: A population-based study [2020]
• Developing countries
  • World Health Organization
    • Maternal mental health and child health and development in resource-constrained settings : report of a UNFPA/WHO international expert meeting : the interface between reproductive health and mental health [2009]
• Europe
  • Journal of Headache and Pain
    • Latest clinical recommendations on valproate use for migraine prophylaxis in women of childbearing age: overview from European Medicines Agency and European Headache Federation [2018]
  • Journal of Neurology
    • Pregnancy outcomes in interferon-beta-exposed patients with multiple sclerosis: results from the European Interferon-beta Pregnancy Registry [2020]
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Diagnosis and management of individuals with Fetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder; a consensus statement from the European Reference Network for Congenital Malformations and Intellectual Disability [2019]
• Finland, Sweden
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
    • Prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes after exposure to interferon beta prior to or during pregnancy in women with MS: Stratification by maternal and newborn characteristics in a register-based cohort study in Finland and Sweden [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The association between exposure to interferon-beta during pregnancy and birth measurements in offspring of women with multiple sclerosis [2019]
• France
  • BMJ Open
    • Risk of early neurodevelopmental outcomes associated with prenatal exposure to the antiepileptic drugs most commonly used during pregnancy: a French nationwide population-based cohort study [2020]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Medical Journal
    • Update to the Hong Kong Epilepsy Guideline: evidence-based recommendations for clinical management of women with epilepsy throughout the reproductive cycle [2020]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Pharmacology
    • Psychopharmacoteratophobia: Excessive fear of malformation associated with prescribing psychotropic drugs during pregnancy: An Indian perspective [2015]
• International
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
    • Lithium Exposure During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Safety and Efficacy Outcomes [2020]
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health
    • An international position paper on mother-infant (perinatal) mental health, with guidelines for clinical practice [2016]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence of insomnia in the third trimester of pregnancy [2021]
  • Epilepsia Open
    • Global Survey of Guidelines for the Management of Epilepsy in Pregnancy: A report from the International League Against Epilepsy Task Force on Women and Pregnancy [2020]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Epilepsy during pregnancy: focus on management strategies [2016]
  • Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
    • Benzodiazepine Use During Pregnancy Alone or in Combination With an Antidepressant and Congenital Malformations: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
  • Midwifery
    • Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce anxiety in pregnancy, labour and postpartum: A systematic review [2021]
• Japan
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine Research
    • Current Proportion of Women Receiving Perinatal Psychosocial or Psychological Intervention in Japan [2016]
  • Neurologia medico-chirurgica
    • Cavernous Malformations in Pregnancy [2013]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Maternal mental health in primary care in five low- and middle-income countries: a situational analysis [2016]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Psychosocial Interventions for Perinatal Common Mental Disorders Delivered by Providers Who Are Not Mental Health Specialists in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2013]
• Nepal
  • Nepal Journal of Epidemiology
    • Mental Health Issues in Pregnant Women in Nepal [2015]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Maternal Mental Health Service Provision in New Zealand: Stocktake of district health board services [2021]
    • Healthy Beginnings: Developing perinatal and infant mental health services in New Zealand [2012]
  • Starship
    • AED use in pregnancy - management of babies exposed to anti-epileptic drugs in utero [2019]
• Norway
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal complications in pregnancy and childbirth for women with epilepsy: Time trends in a nationwide cohort [2019]
    • Medication Use before, during, and after Pregnancy among Women with Eating Disorders: A Study from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study [2015]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Managing epilepsy in women of childbearing age — Polish Society of Epileptology and Polish Gynecological Society Guidelines [2017]
  • Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska
    • Recommendations for neurological, obstetrical and gynaecological care in women with multiple sclerosis: a statement by a working group convened by the Section of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology of the Polish Neurological Society [2020]
  • Psychiatria Polska
    • Recommendations of the Polish Psychiatric Association regarding the treatment of affective disorders in women of childbearing age. Part II: Bipolar disorder [2019]
• Qatar
  • Heliyon
    • Generalized and pregnancy-related anxiety prevalence and predictors among pregnant women attending primary health care in Qatar, 2018–2019 [2020]
• Spain
  • Neurología (English Edition)
    • Headache: pregnancy and breastfeeding. Recommendations of the Spanish Society of Neurology’s Headache Study Group [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
    • Women with epilepsy in sub–Saharan Africa: A review of the reproductive health challenges and perspectives for management [2019]
• Sweden
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Pregnancy outcome in women with cerebral palsy: A nationwide population-based cohort study [2019]
  • Neurology
    • Antiseizure medication use during pregnancy and risk of ASD and ADHD in children [2020]
  • Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
    • Fear of childbirth, depression and anxiety during pregnancy [2021]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Use of valproate in pregnancy and in women of childbearing age between 2014 and 2018 in Switzerland: a retrospective analysis of Swiss healthcare claims data [2021]
• Switzerland, United Kingdom
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Perinatal mental health service provision in Switzerland and in the UK [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Open
    • A UK clinical audit addressing the quality of prescribing of sodium valproate for bipolar disorder in women of childbearing age [2018]
  • British Association for Psychopharmacology
    • Withdrawal of, and alternatives to, valproate-containing medicines in girls and women of childbearing potential who have a psychiatric illness [2018]
    • British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus guidance on the use of psychotropic medication preconception, in pregnancy and postpartum 2017 [2017]
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • First do no harm: valproate and medicines safety in pregnancy [2020]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • SSRI/SNRI antidepressant medicines: small increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage when used in the month before delivery [2021]
    • Antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy: updated advice following comprehensive safety review [2021]
    • Valproate Pregnancy Prevention Programme: temporary advice for management during coronavirus (COVID-19) [2020]
    • Valproate medicines and serious harms in pregnancy: new Annual Risk Acknowledgement Form and clinical guidance from professional bodies to support compliance with the Pregnancy Prevention Programme [2019]
    • Fingolimod (Gilenya): increased risk of congenital malformations; new contraindication during pregnancy and in women of childbearing potential not using effective contraception [2019]
    • Valproate medicines (Epilim, Depakote): contraindicated in women and girls of childbearing potential unless conditions of Pregnancy Prevention Programme are met [2018]
    • Valproate medicines (Epilim, Depakote): Pregnancy Prevention Programme materials online [2018]
    • Valproate and developmental disorders: new alert asking for patient review and further consideration of risk minimisation measures [2017]
    • Medicines related to valproate: risk of abnormal pregnancy outcomes [2015]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance [2020]
    • Antenatal and postnatal mental health [2016]
  • NHS England
    • Involving and supporting partners and other family members in specialist perinatal mental health services: good practice guide [2021]
    • A good practice guide to support implementation of trauma-informed care in the perinatal period [2021]
    • Implementing routine outcome monitoring in specialist perinatal mental health services [2019]
    • The Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathways [2018]
    • Sapropterin (Kuvan®) For Phenylketonuria: Use In Pregnancy [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Lithium Prescribing during Pregnancy: A UK Primary Care Database Study [2015]
  • Public Health England
    • Perinatal mental health [2017]
    • Preconception advice for women with serious mental illness
    • Maternal Mental Health Pathway
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Valproate Use In Women and Girls of Childbearing Years [2019]
    • Epilepsy in Pregnancy [2016]
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists
    • Perinatal mental health services: Recommendations for the provision of services for childbearing women [2015]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Maternal, Fetal, and Child Outcomes of Mental Health Treatments in Women: A Systematic Review of Perinatal Pharmacologic Interventions [2021]
    • Management of Primary Headaches in Pregnancy [2020]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Maternal Phenylketonuria [2013]
    • Use of Psychoactive Medication During Pregnancy and Possible Effects on the Fetus and Newborn [2008]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Obstetric Management of Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries [2020]
    • Management of Women With Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Deficiency (Phenylketonuria) [2020]
  • BMJ
    • Maternal and fetal outcomes following exposure to duloxetine in pregnancy: cohort study [2020]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Stressful Life Events Experienced by Women in the Year Before Their Infants' Births — United States, 2000–2010 [2015]
  • Multiple Sclerosis International
    • What Do Healthcare Providers Advise Women with Multiple Sclerosis Regarding Pregnancy? [2014]
  • Schizophrenia Research
    • Atypical Antipsychotic Use during Pregnancy and Birth Defect Risk: National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–2011 [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postpartum depression, perinatal depression
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Obesity in pregnancy, gestational weight gain

• Africa
  • Journal of Public Health
    • Maternal obesity in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]
• Asia
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • Gestational Weight Gain among Healthy Pregnant Women from Asia in Comparison with Institute of Medicine (IOM) Guidelines-2009: A Systematic Review [2019]
• Australia
  • Better Safer Care
    • Obesity during pregnancy, birth and postpartum
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Weight and body mass index
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • Australian Pregnant Women's Awareness of Gestational Weight Gain and Dietary Guidelines: Opportunity for Action [2016]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Obesity in pregnancy
• Australia, United Kingdom
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal and perinatal outcomes in pregnant women with BMI >50: An international collaborative study [2019]
• Belgium
  • Obesity Facts
    • Reappraisal of Gestational Weight Gain Recommendations in Obese Pregnant Women: A Population-Based Study of 337,590 Births [2020]
• Brazil
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Gestational weight gain charts: results from the Brazilian Maternal and Child Nutrition Consortium [2021]
  • Clinics
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of gestational weight gain recommendations and related outcomes in Brazil [2015]
  • Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
    • Different methods for assessing gestational weight gain and its association with birth weight [2021]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Prevalence and temporal trends in prepregnancy nutritional status and gestational weight gain of adult women followed in the Brazilian Food and Nutrition Surveillance System from 2008 to 2018 [2022]
• Cameroon
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Associations of body mass index and gestational weight gain with term pregnancy outcomes in urban Cameroon: a retrospective cohort study in a tertiary hospital [2015]
• Canada
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Knowledge translation tool to improve pregnant women’s awareness of gestational weight gain goals and risks of gaining outside recommendations: a non-randomized intervention study [2015]
    • Contribution of prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain to adverse neonatal outcomes: population attributable fractions for Canada [2015]
    • Documentation of guideline adherence in antenatal records across maternal weight categories: a chart review [2014]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Widespread misconceptions about pregnancy for women living with obesity [2021]
    • Gestational weight gain trajectories in primary care [2016]
    • Distribution of pregnancy-related weight measures [2016]
  • CMAJ Open
    • Prevalence of and risk factors for excess weight gain in pregnancy: a cross-sectional study using survey data [2021]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Effect of Maternal Weight on Pregnancy Outcomes
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Pregnancy and Maternal Obesity Part 2: Team Planning for Delivery and Postpartum Care [2019]
    • Pregnancy and Maternal Obesity Part 1: Pre-conception and Prenatal Care [2019]
    • Obesity in Pregnancy [2018]
• Canada, France
  • Scientific Reports
    • Impact of maternal obesity on the incidence of pregnancy complications in France and Canada [2017]
• Chile
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Effectiveness of a normative nutrition intervention (diet, physical activity and breastfeeding) on maternal nutrition and offspring growth: the Chilean maternal and infant nutrition cohort study (CHiMINCs) [2015]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Association among pre-pregnancy body mass index, gestational weight gain and neonatal birth weight: a prospective cohort study in China [2020]
  • Journal of Epidemiology
    • Gestational weight gain charts by gestational age and body mass index for Chinese women: A population-based follow-up study [2019]
  • Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific
    • Optimal gestational weight gain for Chinese women - analysis from a longitudinal cohort with childhood follow-up [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Birth Weight: A Cohort Study in China [2015]
    • Joint and Independent Associations of Gestational Weight Gain and Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index with Outcomes of Pregnancy in Chinese Women: A Retrospective Cohort Study [2015]
  • Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
    • Investigation of optimal gestational weight gain based on the occurrence of adverse pregnancy outcomes for Chinese women: a prospective cohort study [2021]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Obesity in pregnancy [2017]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Maternal weight change from prepregnancy to 18 months postpartum and subsequent risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in Danish women: A cohort study [2021]
• France
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal characteristics associated with gestational weight gain in France: a population-based, nationally representative study [2021]
• Germany
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Secular trends in pregnancy weight gain in German women and their influences on foetal outcome: a hospital-based study [2014]
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Obesity and Pregnancy. Guideline of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (S3-Level, AWMF Registry No. 015-081, June 2019) [2021]
• Ghana
  • BMC Obesity
    • Socio-demographic trends in overweight and obesity among parous and nulliparous women in Ghana [2016]
• Greece
  • Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
    • Association between gestational weight gain and risk of obesity in preadolescence: a longitudinal study (1997–2007) of 5,125 children in Greece [2017]
• India
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Population estimates, consequences, and risk factors of obesity among pregnant and postpartum women in India: Results from a national survey and policy recommendations [2020]
• International
  • AJP Reports
    • Nutrition and Exercise Strategies to Prevent Excessive Pregnancy Weight Gain: A Meta-analysis [2019]
  • BMC Medicine
    • Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America, and Oceania [2018]
    • Gestational weight gain across continents and ethnicity: systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal and infant outcomes in more than one million women [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Monitoring gestational weight gain and prepregnancy BMI using the 2009 IOM guidelines in the global population: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
    • Gestational weight gain outside the Institute of Medicine recommendations and adverse pregnancy outcomes: analysis using individual participant data from randomised trials [2019]
    • No global consensus: a cross-sectional survey of maternal weight policies [2014]
  • Frontiers in Medicine
    • Physical Exercise vs. Metformin to Improve Delivery- and Newborn-Related Outcomes Among Pregnant Women With Overweight: A Network Meta-Analysis [2021]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Management of prepregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum obesity from the FIGO Pregnancy and Non-Communicable Diseases Committee: A FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) guideline [2020]
  • JAMA Internal Medicine
    • Association of Antenatal Diet and Physical Activity-Based Interventions With Gestational Weight Gain and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2021]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Exercise versus Metformin to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes among Overweight Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis [2021]
    • Health in Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum Global Alliance: International Network Preconception Research Priorities for the Prevention of Maternal Obesity and Related Pregnancy and Long-Term Complications [2019]
  • Obesity Reviews
    • A meta-review of systematic reviews of lifestyle interventions for reducing gestational weight gain in women with overweight or obesity [2021]
    • Guidelines for the management of pregnant women with obesity: A systematic review [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Estimated global overweight and obesity burden in pregnant women based on panel data model [2018]
  • Therapeutic Advances in Reproductive Health
    • A review of maternal overweight and obesity and its impact on cardiometabolic outcomes during pregnancy and postpartum [2021]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Obesity and pregnancy [2011]
• Japan
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine Research
    • Optimal Weight Gain During Pregnancy in Japanese Women [2016]
  • Journal of Epidemiology
    • Gestational weight gain growth charts adapted to Japanese pregnancies using a Bayesian approach in a longitudinal study: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
    • Pre-pregnancy BMI-specific optimal gestational weight gain for women in Japan [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Pregnancy Outcomes Based on Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Japanese Women [2016]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Optimal gestational weight gain for underweight pregnant women in Japan [2019]
    • Investigation of optimal weight gain during pregnancy for Japanese Women [2017]
• Latin America
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • Comparison of Three Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines Under Use in Latin America [2021]
• Low and middle income countries
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Gestational weight gain in 4 low- and middle-income countries and associations with birth outcomes: a secondary analysis of the Women First Trial [2021]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Gestational weight gain in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling analysis using nationally representative data [2020]
• Malawi
  • Reproductive Health
    • Maternal overweight and obesity and the risk of caesarean birth in Malawi [2019]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Guidance for Healthy Weight Gain in Pregnancy [2014]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Associations of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain with pregnancy outcome and postpartum weight retention: a prospective observational cohort study [2014]
• Republic of Korea
  • BMJ Open
    • Secular trends in postpartum weight retention from 2003 to 2012: a nationwide, population-based, retrospective, longitudinal study in South Korea [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Is it appropriate for Korean women to adopt the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations for gestational weight gain? [2017]
  • Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
    • Determining optimal gestational weight gain in the Korean population: a retrospective cohort study [2017]
• South and Southeast Asia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Association of maternal obesity with fetal and neonatal death: Evidence from South and South-East Asian countries [2021]
• South Asia
  • Obesity Reviews
    • Effects of maternal anthropometrics on pregnancy outcomes in South Asian women: a systematic review [2018]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Annals of Global Health
    • Country-Level Analysis of the Association between Maternal Obesity and Neonatal Mortality in 34 Sub-Saharan African Countries [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Gestational weight gain in sub-Saharan Africa: Estimation based on pseudo-cohort design [2021]
    • Gestational weight gain and its effect on birth outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Maternal obesity and Caesarean delivery in sub-Saharan Africa [2016]
• Sweden
  • BMJ
    • Risk of major congenital malformations in relation to maternal overweight and obesity severity: cohort study of 1.2 million singletons [2017]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Inter-pregnancy Weight Change and Risks of Severe Birth-Asphyxia-Related Outcomes in Singleton Infants Born at Term: A Nationwide Swedish Cohort Study [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Body mass index and gestational weight gain in migrant women by birth regions compared with Swedish-born women: A registry linkage study of 0.5 million pregnancies [2020]
    • Prediction of stillbirth in women with overweight or obesity—A register-based cohort study [2018]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Obesity rates in two generations of Swedish women entering pregnancy, and associated obesity risk among adult daughters [2015]
• Taiwan
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Decreased Physical Activity during Pregnancy Is Associated with Excessive Gestational Weight Gain [2021]
    • Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes in Taiwan: A Population-Based Birth Cohort Study [2020]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Inadequate gestational weight gain contributes to increasing rates of low birth weight in Taiwan: 2011–2016 nationwide surveys [2021]
    • Gestational weight gain and risks for adverse perinatal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study based on the 2009 Institute of Medicine guidelines [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Healthy weight services in England before, during and after pregnancy: a mixed methods approach [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal obesity classes, preterm and post-term birth: a retrospective analysis of 479,864 births in England [2019]
    • Obesity and normal birth: A qualitative study of clinician’s management of obese pregnant women during labour [2015]
    • Existing maternal obesity guidelines may increase inequalities between ethnic groups: a national epidemiological study of 502,474 births in England [2012]
  • BMJ Open
    • Cohort study of high maternal body mass index and the risk of adverse pregnancy and delivery outcomes in Scotland [2020]
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Obesity in pregnant women: a primary care perspective on pre-conception counselling and the role of supplements [2020]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Guidelines and interventions for obesity during pregnancy [2012]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Weight management before, during and after pregnancy [2010]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Care of Women with Obesity in Pregnancy [2018]
• United States
  • Advances in Nutrition
    • Racial-Ethnic Differences in Pregnancy-Related Weight [2012]
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Counseling and Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2021]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Weight Gain During Pregnancy [2013]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Trends in gestational weight gain: the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2000—2009 [2015]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Prevalence and Trends in Prepregnancy Normal Weight — 48 States, New York City, and District of Columbia, 2011–2015 [2018]
    • Prepregnancy Body Mass Index by Maternal Characteristics and State: Data From the Birth Certificate, 2014 [2016]
    • Gestational Weight Gain — United States, 2012 and 2013 [2015]
  • Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Optimizing Weight for Maternal and Infant Health – Tenable, or Too Late? [2014]
  • Healthcare
    • Impact of Pre-Pregnancy Weight and Gestational Weight Gain on Birth Outcomes by Nativity in the United States: A Systematic Review [2017]
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
    • Time to change weight gain recommendations for pregnant women with obesity [2019]
  • Journal of Environmental and Public Health
    • Prevalence and Social and Built Environmental Determinants of Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity in 68 Major Metropolitan Cities of the United States, 2013–2016 [2021]
  • Journal of Obesity
    • Marked Disparities in Pre-Pregnancy Obesity and Overweight Prevalence among US Women by Race/Ethnicity, Nativity/Immigrant Status, and Sociodemographic Characteristics, 2012–2014 [2019]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Trends in Prepregnancy Obesity and Association With Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in the United States, 2013 to 2018 [2021]
  • National Academies Press
    • Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines - Institute of Medicine (US) and National Research Council (US) Committee to Reexamine IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines [2009]
  • Nutrition Reviews
    • Gestational weight gain recommendations in the context of the obesity epidemic [2013]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Prevalence and Characteristics Associated With Gestational Weight Gain Adequacy [2015]
    • Pregnancy Outcomes With Weight Gain Above or Below the 2009 Institute of Medicine Guidelines [2013]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinics of North America
    • Childbearing and Obesity in Women: Weight Before, During, and After Pregnancy [2009]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Associations between pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain, and prenatal diet quality in a national sample [2019]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Healthy Weight and Weight Gain In Pregnancy: Behavioral Counseling Interventions [2021]
• United States, Canada
  • Annals of Medicine
    • Effectiveness of multimodal nutrition interventions during pregnancy to achieve 2009 Institute of Medicine gestational weight gain guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• Uruguay
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Excessive Maternal Weight and Diabetes Are Risk Factors for Macrosomia: A Cross-Sectional Study of 42,663 Pregnancies in Uruguay [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Obstetrics, perinatology

• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Maternal Health
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Mothers & babies
  • Better Safer Care
    • Maternity ehandbook
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Pregnancy Care Guidelines [2020]
    • Pregnancy Care Guidelines and related documents
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines
• Cambodia
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Assessing maternal and newborn hospital data in Cambodia [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Interdisciplinary Care Approach for Perinatal Patients in Acute Care Settings: Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Guidelines & Standards
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care: National Guidelines [2017]
    • Perinatal Health Indicators 2013: a Surveillance Report by the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Perinatal Surveillance System [2015]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Investigation and Management of Non-immune Fetal Hydrops [2018]
    • Delayed Child-Bearing [2017]
• Denmark
  • BMJ Open
    • Obstetric and non-obstetric surgery during pregnancy: A 20-year Danish population-based prevalence study [2019]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Summary report on the Third annual intercountry meeting of maternal and child health programme managers in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Amman, Jordan 11–14 September 2017 [2017]
• Europe
  • European Journal of Public Health
    • Linking databases on perinatal health: a review of the literature and current practices in Europe [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Improving the health care of pregnant refugee and migrant women and newborn children: policy brief (2018) [2018]
    • Improving the health care of pregnant refugee and migrant women and newborn children (2018) [2018]
    • Effective Perinatal Care. Course Facilitators guide [2010]
    • Effective Perinatal Care. Course Director’s Guide [2010]
    • Maternal and newborn health
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • The Treatment of Illnesses Arising in Pregnancy [2017]
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Analysis of the German Perinatal Survey of the Years 2007–2011 and Comparison with Data From 1995–1997: Maternal Characteristics [2013]
• Guinea-Bissau
  • World Bank
    • Guinea Bissau : Qualitative Assessment of Demand Side Constraints to Access Maternal and Child Health Services [2019]
• India
  • Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology
    • Oral health knowledge and awareness among pregnant women in India: A systematic review [2015]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Indicators for monitoring maternal and neonatal quality care: a systematic review [2019]
    • eRegistries: indicators for the WHO Essential Interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health [2016]
    • eRegistries: governance for electronic maternal and child health registries [2016]
    • eRegistries: Electronic registries for maternal and child health [2016]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Developing and applying a 'living guidelines' approach to WHO recommendations on maternal and perinatal health [2019]
    • Mapping the landscape of global programmes to evaluate health interventions in pregnancy: the need for harmonised approaches, standards and tools [2018]
  • Médecins Sans Frontières
    • Essential obstetric and newborn care [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • “What gets measured better gets done better”: The landscape of validation of global maternal and newborn health indicators through key informant interviews [2019]
    • Measures matter: A scoping review of maternal and newborn indicators [2018]
  • Population Council
    • Maternal and Newborn Health
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Management of urinary retention in pregnancy, post-partum and after gynaecological surgery [2018]
• Kosovo
  • Implementation Science
    • Determinants of implementation of maternal health guidelines in Kosovo: mixed methods study [2013]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Are the poorest poor being left behind? Estimating global inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health [2020]
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
    • Low- and middle-income countries face many common barriers to implementation of maternal health evidence products [2016]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Use of a participatory quality assessment and improvement tool for maternal and neonatal hospital care. Part 2: Review of the results of quality cycles and of factors influencing change [2020]
    • Use of a participatory quality assessment and improvement tool for maternal and neonatal hospital care. Part 1: Review of implementation features and observed quality gaps in 25 countries [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Assessing the Effect of mHealth Interventions in Improving Maternal and Neonatal Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2016]
• Low-income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Barriers, Facilitators and Priorities for Implementation of WHO Maternal and Perinatal Health Guidelines in Four Lower-Income Countries: A GREAT Network Research Activity [2016]
• Mauritius
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Mauritius Maternal and Child Health Handbook [2021]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Maternity Tables 2013 [2015]
    • Report on Maternity - series
• Nigeria
  • Health Promotion Perspectives
    • Promoting evidence informed policy making in Nigeria: a review of the maternal, newborn and child health policy development process [2017]
    • An assessment of maternal, newborn and child health implementation studies in Nigeria: implications for evidence informed policymaking and practice [2016]
• Norway
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Adverse events reporting by obstetric units in Norway as part of their quality assurance and patient safety work: an analysis of practice [2021]
• Philippines
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • Guidelines and training for maternal and newborn care post-Haiyan [2015]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Social Inequality in Birth Outcomes in Korea, 1995-2008 [2013]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Large and persistent subnational inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health intervention coverage in sub-Saharan Africa [2020]
  • Implementation Science
    • How to know what you need to do': a cross-country comparison of maternal health guidelines in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania [2012]
• Suriname
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Bottom-up development of national obstetric guidelines in middle-income country Suriname [2019]
• United Kingdom
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Pregnancy and newborn screening standards [2019]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Pregnancy
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
    • Child and maternal health statistics
  • Public Health England
    • Child and Maternal Health
  • Public Health Scotland
    • Births in Scottish Hospitals
• United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Age Terminology During the Perinatal Period [2014]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Nonobstetric Surgery During Pregnancy [2019]
    • Oral Health Care During Pregnancy and Through the Lifespan [2013]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
    • Pregnancy
    • CDC Levels of Care Assessment Tool (CDC LOCATe)
    • Births and Natality
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • Implementing CDC’s Level of Care Assessment Tool (LOCATe): A National Collaboration to Improve Maternal and Child Health [2018]
  • Maternal Health Task Force
    • Maternal Health Task Force
  • National Commission on Correctional Health Care
    • Pregnancy and Postpartum Care in Correctional Settings [2018]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Placental origins of adverse pregnancy outcomes: potential molecular targets: an Executive Workshop Summary of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [2016]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • SMFM Consult Series #46: Evaluation and management of polyhydramnios [2018]
    • Quality measures in high-risk pregnancies: Executive Summary of a Cooperative Workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2017]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Clinical Guideline #7: nonimmune hydrops fetalis [2015]
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
    • Management of Pregnancy [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Integrating stakeholder and community engagement in quality of care initiatives for maternal, newborn and child health [2020]
    • Quality, equity, dignity: the network to improve quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health – strategic objectives [2018]
    • WHO recommendations on maternal health: guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee [2017]
    • Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care [2015]
    • Counselling for maternal and newborn health care [2013]
    • Maternal health
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Trauma in pregnancy
    • Thyroid diseases in pregnancy
    • Substance use in pregnancy
    • Stillbirth, neonatal mortality
    • Smoking in pregnancy
    • Skin diseases in pregnancy
    • Rh isoimmunization
    • Respiratory tract diseases, hypersensitivity in pregnancy
    • Prolonged pregnancy
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Prenatal nutrition, dietary supplements in pregnancy
    • Pregnancy tests
    • Pregnancy in diabetics, pre-existing diabetes
    • Preeclampsia, eclampsia, hypertension in pregnancy
    • Preconception care
    • Obesity in pregnancy, gestational weight gain
    • Neurologic and mental disorders in pregnancy
    • Neural tube defects, folic acid
    • Neonatology
    • Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, hyperemesis gravidarum
    • Musculoskeletal diseases in pregnancy
    • Multiple pregnancy
    • Medications in pregnancy
    • Maternity services
    • Maternal mortality and morbidity
    • Maternal and neonatal infections
    • Labor, delivery, postpartum
    • Kidney diseases in pregnancy
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Gestational diabetes
    • Fetal therapy
    • Fetal maturation, antenatal corticosteroids
    • Fetal growth restriction
    • Fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol in pregnancy
    • Exercise and physical activity in pregnancy
    • Environmental exposures in pregnancy
    • Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy
    • Digestive system diseases in pregnancy
    • Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy
    • Breast cancer and pregnancy
    • Bleeding in pregnancy, placenta diseases
    • Autoimmune diseases in pregnancy
    • Antenatal care
    • Adolescent pregnancy

Preconception care

• Africa
  • Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
    • Pre-conception counselling for key cardiovascular conditions in Africa: optimising pregnancy outcomes [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Mothers’ utilization and associated factors of preconception care in Africa, a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Interconception care [2020]
    • Preconception care [2018]
  • Fertility Society of Australia
    • Reproductive carrier screening [2021]
    • Genetics and genomics [2021]
• Belgium
  • Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
    • Systematic development of an evidence-based website on preconception care [2016]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Preconception care: Call for national guidelines [2013]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Preconception care [2018]
• China
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • China’s community-based strategy of universal preconception care in rural areas at a population level using a novel risk classification system for stratifying couples´ preconception health status [2016]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Factors influencing the quality of preconception healthcare in China: applying a preconceptional instrument to assess healthcare needs [2014]
• Ethiopia
  • Reproductive Health
    • Knowledge and utilisation of preconception care and associated factors among women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• India
  • Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
    • Good Clinical Practice Recommendations on Preconception Care [2016]
• International
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Counseling and surveillance of obstetrical risks for female childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors: recommendations from the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group [2020]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Outcomes of an International Workshop on Preconception Expanded Carrier Screening: Some Considerations for Governments [2017]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Prevention of noncommunicable diseases by interventions in the preconception period: A FIGO position paper for action by healthcare practitioners [2020]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Nutrients
    • Effects of Preconception Care and Periconception Interventions on Maternal Nutritional Status and Birth Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2020]
• Malaysia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping [2016]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Associations between periconceptional lifestyle behaviours and adverse pregnancy outcomes [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Health behaviours in 131,182 UK women planning pregnancy [2021]
  • Public Health England
    • Preconception care: making the case
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Prepregnancy Counseling [2019]
  • American Family Physician
    • Recommendations for Preconception Counseling and Care [2013]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Disparities in Preconception Health Indicators — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2015, and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2013–2014 [2018]
    • Core State Preconception Health Indicators — Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009 [2014]
    • Preconception Care
  • Health Affairs
    • ACA Medicaid Expansions Increased Preconception Health Counseling, Folic Acid Intake, and Effective Postpartum Contraception [2020]
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • Surveillance Indicators for Women’s Preconception Care [2020]
    • Sexual Orientation Disparities in Preconception Health [2020]
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes
    • Interconception Care for Primary Care Providers: Consensus Recommendations on Preconception and Postpartum Management of Reproductive-Age Patients With Medical Comorbidities [2021]
  • Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
    • Association Between Recommended Preconception Health Behaviors and Screenings and Improvements in Cardiometabolic Outcomes of Pregnancy [2021]
  • Women's Health Issues
    • Preconception Health Risks among U.S. Women: Disparities at the Intersection of Disability and Race or Ethnicity [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Preeclampsia, eclampsia, hypertension in pregnancy

• Afghanistan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prevention and management of severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in Afghanistan [2013]
• Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal lipid profile and risk of pre-eclampsia in African pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Australia
  • Better Safer Care
    • Hypertension in pregnancy
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Risk of pre-eclampsia
    • Blood pressure
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Hypertension and pregnancy
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
    • Guideline for the Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy [2014]
• Bangladesh, Nigeria
  • Journal of Global Health
    • “What’s in a name?”: Exploring inconsistent and contradictory definitions and clinical guidelines for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy from published literature from Nigeria and Bangladesh [2020]
• Brazil
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
    • 7th Brazilian Guideline of Arterial Hypertension: Chapter 9 - Arterial Hypertension in pregnancy [2016]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Situational analysis of facilitators and barriers to availability and utilization of magnesium sulfate for eclampsia and severe preeclampsia in the public health system in Brazil [2016]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Pre-eclampsia: Universal Screening or Universal Prevention for Low and Middle-Income Settings? [2021]
• Canada
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Incidence and risk factors for severe preeclampsia, hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count syndrome, and eclampsia at preterm and term gestation: a population-based study [2021]
  • Hypertension Canada
    • Hypertension Canada’s 2018 Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy [2018]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Maternal Hypertension in Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Prediction, Prevention, and Management [2022]
• China
  • BMJ Open
    • Associations of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A level with essential hypertension and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy in Chinese population: a meta-analysis of 20 research studies involving 3332 individuals [2015]
  • China CDC Weekly
    • Incidence and Risk Factors of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy — 8 Provinces, China, 2014–2018 [2021]
• China, Sweden
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Preeclampsia Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Pregnancy Outcomes in Sweden and China [2021]
• China, United States
  • Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
    • Differences in epidemiology of patients with preeclampsia between China and the US (Review) [2021]
• Colombia
  • Colombia Médica
    • Reduction of maternal mortality due to preeclampsia in Colombia-an interrupted time-series analysis [2014]
• Croatia
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology: X
    • Croatian society for perinatal medicine: Consensus statement and recommendations for the risk assessment of preeclampsia [2021]
• Denmark
  • BMJ
    • Pre-eclampsia and risk of later kidney disease: nationwide cohort study [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and peripartum cardiomyopathy: A nationwide cohort study [2019]
• Developing countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • Role of calcium supplementation during pregnancy in reducing risk of developing gestational hypertensive disorders: a meta-analysis of studies from developing countries [2011]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal and perinatal outcomes of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
    • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: a systemic review and meta-analysis [2018]
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • The impact of pregnancy induced hypertension on low birth weight in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and determinants of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • BMJ Open
    • Use of magnesium sulfate before 32 weeks of gestation: a European population-based cohort study [2017]
• Finland
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The diagnosis of pre-eclampsia using two revised classifications in the Finnish Pre-eclampsia Consortium (FINNPEC) cohort [2016]
• France
  • Journal of Clinical Hypertension
    • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in France (2010-2018): The nationwide CONCEPTION study [2021]
• Indonesia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) management pathways: results of a Delphi survey to contextualise international recommendations for Indonesian primary care settings [2021]
• International
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • A core outcome set for pre-eclampsia research: an international consensus development study [2020]
    • Clinical practice patterns on the use of magnesium sulphate for treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia: a multi-country survey [2016]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Epidemiological trends of maternal hypertensive disorders of pregnancy at the global, regional, and national levels: a population-based study [2021]
    • Are hypertensive disorders in pregnancy associated with congenital malformations in offspring? Evidence from the WHO Multicountry cross sectional survey on maternal and newborn health [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Assessment of the quality and content of national and international guidelines on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy using the AGREE II instrument [2016]
  • British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • How to manage hypertension in pregnancy effectively [2011]
  • CMAJ Open
    • Home blood pressure monitoring in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Current Hypertension Reports
    • Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Comparison of International Guidelines [2020]
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
    • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease: Current National and International Guidelines and the Need for Future Research [2019]
  • Intergrowth-21st
    • International gestational age-specific centiles for blood pressure in pregnancy from the INTERGROWTH-21st Project in 8 countries: A longitudinal cohort study [2021]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) initiative on pre-eclampsia: A pragmatic guide for first-trimester screening and prevention [2019]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Practice Guidelines: role of ultrasound in screening for and follow-up of pre-eclampsia [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Systematic review of prediction models for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia [2020]
    • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of International Clinical Practice Guidelines [2014]
  • Pregnancy Hypertension
    • Standardising definitions for the pre-eclampsia core outcome set: A consensus development study [2020]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Factors effective in the prevention of Preeclampsia: A systematic review [2020]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Multicenter screening for pre-eclampsia by maternal factors and biomarkers at 11–13 weeks' gestation: comparison with NICE guidelines and ACOG recommendations [2017]
    • Implementation of the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio for prediction and diagnosis of pre-eclampsia in singleton pregnancy: implications for clinical practice [2015]
• Iran
  • Archives of Iranian Medicine
    • Prevalence of Preeclampsia and Eclampsia in Iran [2016]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • The Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy [2016]
    • Diagnosis and management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [2016]
  • Pregnancy Hypertension
    • Hypertension in pregnancy: Prevalence, risk factors and outcomes for women birthing in Ireland [2021]
• Italy
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Italian Advisory Board: sFlt-1/PlGF ratio and preeclampsia, state of the art and developments in diagnostic, therapeutic and clinical management [2016]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • Diagnosis and management of preeclampsia in community settings in low and middle-income countries [2015]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Sexual violence and eclampsia: analysis of data from Demographic and Health Surveys from seven low- and middle-income countries [2019]
• Mexico
  • Salud Pública de México
    • Treating patients with severe preeclampsia and eclampsia in Oaxaca, Mexico [2014]
• Mongolia
  • Pregnancy Hypertension
    • Prevalence of Pregnancy Hypertensive Disorders in Mongolia [2016]
• Nepal
  • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
    • Optimizing treatment for the prevention of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in Nepal: is calcium supplementation during pregnancy cost-effective? [2016]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension and Pre-eclampsia in Pregnancy in New Zealand: A clinical practice guideline [2018]
  • New Zealand College of Midwives
    • Guidance regarding the use of low-dose aspirin in the prevention of pre-eclampsia in high-risk women [2018]
• Nigeria
  • Annals of African Medicine
    • The use of magnesium sulphate for the treatment of severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [2009]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Factors influencing the use of magnesium sulphate in pre-eclampsia/eclampsia management in health facilities in Northern Nigeria: a mixed methods study [2015]
• Norway
  • Hypertension
    • Preconception Cardiovascular Risk Factor Differences Between Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia: Cohort Norway Study [2016]
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health
    • Safety, clinical effectiveness, predictive accuracy and cost effectiveness of blood based tests for women with suspected preeclampsia [2020]
• Portugal
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
    • Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia: An Update on the Pharmacological Treatment Applied in Portugal [2018]
• Qatar
  • Qatar Medical Journal
    • A review of eclampsia in Qatar: A twenty-year study (from January 1991-December 2009) [2013]
• South Africa
  • South African Medical Journal
    • Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy: 2019 National guideline [2019]
• Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Management of Hypertensive Disease During Pregnancy [2014]
    • Management of Eclampsia [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Systematic review of observational studies of the impact of cardiovascular risk factors on preeclampsia in sub-saharan Africa [2021]
  • Women's Health
    • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Incidence of preeclampsia in pregnant Swiss women [2015]
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Trends in the incidence of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Taiwan between 1998 and 2010 [2015]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Factors associated with blood pressure check-up during pregnancy among women of reproductive age in Tanzania: an analysis of data from 2015—16 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicators Survey [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • An evaluation of the influence of the publication of the UK National Institute for health and Care Excellence’s guidance on hypertension in pregnancy: a retrospective analysis of clinical practice [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Implementation of national antenatal hypertension guidelines: a multicentre multiple methods study [2020]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Lumella point-of-care test for assessing pre-eclampsia risk [2022]
    • Identification of hypertension in pregnancy [2021]
    • Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis and management [2019]
    • Hypertension in pregnancy [2019]
    • PlGF-based testing to help diagnose suspected pre-eclampsia (Triage PlGF test, Elecsys immunoassay sFlt-1/PlGF ratio, DELFIA Xpress PlGF 1-2-3 test, and BRAHMS sFlt-1 Kryptor/BRAHMS PlGF plus Kryptor PE ratio) [2016]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Comparison of diagnostic accuracy of early screening for pre-eclampsia by NICE guidelines and a method combining maternal factors and biomarkers: results of SPREE [2018]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Preeclampsia [2017]
  • American College of Cardiology
    • 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines [2018]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Clinical Guidance for the Integration of the Findings of the Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy (CHAP) Study [2022]
    • Low-Dose Aspirin Use for the Prevention of Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality [2021]
    • Emergent Therapy for Acute-Onset, Severe Hypertension During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2019]
    • Low-Dose Aspirin Use During Pregnancy [2018]
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Prepregnancy adherence to dietary recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in relation to risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy [2020]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy and Mortality at Delivery Hospitalization — United States, 2017–2019 [2022]
  • Hypertension
    • Research Recommendations from the National Institutes of Health Workshop on Predicting, Preventing and Treating Preeclampsia [2019]
    • Estimated Impact of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guidelines on Reproductive-Aged Women [2018]
  • Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
    • A Critical Review on the Use of Race in Understanding Racial Disparities in Preeclampsia [2021]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Temporal Trends in Pregnancy-Associated Stroke and Its Outcomes Among Women With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy [2020]
    • Maternal Race/Ethnicity, Hypertension, and Risk for Stroke During Delivery Admission [2020]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Severe Hypertension During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2017]
  • Open Nursing Journal
    • Management of Chronic and Gestational Hypertension of Pregnancy: A Guide for Primary Care Nurse Practitioners [2018]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Executive summary: Workshop on Preeclampsia, January 25–26, 2021, cosponsored by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Preeclampsia Foundation [2021]
    • SMFM Special Statement: Checklists for preeclampsia risk-factor screening to guide recommendations for prophylactic low-dose aspirin [2020]
    • SMFM Special Statement: Checklist for postpartum discharge of women with hypertensive disorders [2020]
    • SMFM Statement: benefit of antihypertensive therapy for mild-to-moderate chronic hypertension during pregnancy remains uncertain [2015]
    • Evaluation and management of severe preeclampsia before 34 weeks' gestation [2011]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality: Preventive Medication [2021]
    • Preeclampsia: Screening [2017]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendations on drug treatment for non-severe hypertension in pregnancy [2020]
    • WHO recommendation on calcium supplementation before pregnancy for the prevention of pre-eclampsia and its complications [2020]
    • WHO recommendations: drug treatment for severe hypertension in pregnancy [2018]
    • WHO recommendations: Policy of interventionist versus expectant management of severe pre-eclampsia before term [2018]
    • WHO recommendation: Calcium supplementation during pregnancy for the prevention of pre-eclampsia and its complications [2018]
    • WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia: implications and actions [2014]
    • Pre-eclampsia, eclampsia and adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes: a secondary analysis of the World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health [2014]
    • Guideline: Calcium supplementation in pregnant women [2013]
    • WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia: evidence base [2011]
    • WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Pregnancy in diabetics, pre-existing diabetes

• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Improving national reporting on diabetes in pregnancy: technical report [2019]
    • Diabetes in pregnancy 2014–2015 [2019]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Diabetes in pregnancy among indigenous women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States: a method for systematic review of studies with different designs [2011]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Hyperglycaemia
  • Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific
    • Diabetes during pregnancy and birthweight trends among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory of Australia over 30 years [2020]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society
    • ADIPS 2020 guideline for pre-existing diabetes and pregnancy [2020]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Increasing Frequency of Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose Test Strips During Pregnancy: A Review of the Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness and Guidelines [2017]
  • Diabetes Canada
    • Diabetes and Pregnancy [2018]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Impact of pre-pregnancy diabetes mellitus on congenital anomalies, Canada, 2002–2012 [2015]
    • Maternal Diabetes in Canada
• China
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Preconception diabetes mellitus and adverse pregnancy outcomes in over 6.4 million women: A population-based cohort study in China [2019]
• Ethiopia
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • Stillbirth Among Patients With Diabetes in Pregnancy in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]
• Europe
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prescribing of Antidiabetic Medicines before, during and after Pregnancy: A Study in Seven European Regions [2016]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
    • Diabetic retinopathy in pregnancy - A review [2021]
• International
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Preconception care for women with diabetes: a review of current guideline recommendations [2010]
  • BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
    • Antidiabetic medication use during pregnancy: an international utilization study [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of pre-pregnancy care for women with diabetes for improving maternal and perinatal outcomes [2020]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Global Health Action
    • The burden of diabetes mellitus during pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2014]
  • Journal of Diabetes Research
    • Detection and Management of Diabetes during Pregnancy in Low Resource Settings: Insights into Past and Present Clinical Practices [2016]
• Malaysia
  • Malaysian Family Physician
    • Management of diabetes in pregnancy in primary care [2019]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Standards of Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians in management of women with diabetes [2018]
  • Polish Archives of Internal Medicine
    • Medical care of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes: current guidelines and clinical practice [2013]
• Republic of Korea
  • Scientific Reports
    • Trends and associated maternal characteristics of antidiabetic medication use among pregnant women in South Korea [2021]
• Spain
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • A Population-Based Study of Diabetes during Pregnancy in Spain (2009–2015): Trends in Incidence, Obstetric Interventions, and Pregnancy Outcomes [2020]
• Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy [2017]
• Sweden
  • BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
    • Trends in diabetes in pregnancy in Sweden 1998–2012 [2016]
  • Primary Care Diabetes
    • Swedish guidelines for type 1 diabetes and pregnancy outcomes: A nationwide descriptive study of consensus and adherence [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Implementation of guidelines for multidisciplinary team management of pregnancy in women with pre-existing diabetes or cardiac conditions: results from a UK national survey [2017]
  • BMJ Open
    • A cohort study of trends in the prevalence of pregestational diabetes in pregnancy recorded in UK general practice between 1995 and 2012 [2016]
  • Diabetes UK
    • Management of glycaemic control in pregnant women with diabetes on obstetric wards and delivery units [2017]
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Trends in Factors Affecting Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women With Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes of Childbearing Age (2004–2017) [2021]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Diabetes in pregnancy: management of diabetes and its complications from preconception to the postnatal period [2020]
    • Continuous glucose monitoring: Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period [2020]
    • Diabetes in pregnancy [2016]
  • NHS Digital
    • National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit Report 2018 [2019]
• United States
  • American Diabetes Association
    • Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2020 [2020]
    • Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2018 [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Diabetes risk status and physical activity in pregnancy: U.S. BRFSS 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 [2020]
    • Use of Antidiabetic drugs during pregnancy among U.S. women with Livebirth deliveries in the Mini-Sentinel system [2019]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Prevalence and Changes in Preexisting Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes Among Women Who Had a Live Birth — United States, 2012–2016 [2018]
  • Endocrine Society
    • Diabetes and Pregnancy: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline [2013]
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
    • The use of glucose-lowering medications for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus during pregnancy in the United States [2021]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • SMFM Special Statement: Updated checklist for antepartum care of pregestational diabetes mellitus [2020]
• United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
  • Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews
    • Diabetes in pregnancy among indigenous women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States: a systematic review of the evidence for screening in early pregnancy [2013]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Prevalence of diabetes in pregnancy among Indigenous women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Gestational diabetes

Pregnancy tests

• Germany
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Strips of Hope: Accuracy of Home Pregnancy Tests and New Developments [2014]
• United States
  • American Journal of Clinical Pathology
    • Should the Qualitative Serum Pregnancy Test Be Considered Obsolete? [2012]
  • Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
    • Current Practices When Reporting Quantitative Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Test Results [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Evidence-based pregnancy testing in clinical trials: Recommendations from a multi-stakeholder development process [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO international collaborative study of the proposed 5th [fifth] international standard for chorionic gonadotrophin [2009]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Prenatal nutrition, dietary supplements in pregnancy

• Afghanistan
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Review of policies, data, and interventions to improve maternal nutrition in Afghanistan [2020]
    • Stop stunting: situation and way forward to improve maternal, child and adolescent nutrition in Afghanistan [2016]
• Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Burden and determinants of malnutrition among pregnant women in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Asia, Pacific
  • Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
    • Regional Overview on Maternal Nutrition and Examples of Health System Programme and Policy Responses: Asia and the Pacific [2019]
• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Nutrition care by general practitioners: Enhancing women’s health during and after pregnancy [2016]
    • The role of micronutrients in pregnancy [2009]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Nutrition and maternal health: a mapping of Australian dietetic services [2020]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Vitamin D status [2018]
    • Nutrition and physical activity
  • Fertility Society of Australia
    • Micronutrient (folic acid, iodine and vitamin D) supplements pre-conception and during pregnancy [2021]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Exploring Australian women’s level of nutrition knowledge during pregnancy: a cross-sectional study [2016]
  • Nutrients
    • Do the Dietary Intakes of Pregnant Women Attending Public Hospital Antenatal Clinics Align with Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Recommendations? [2020]
• Brazil
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Brazilian pregnant and lactating women do not change their food intake to meet nutritional goals [2014]
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
    • Vitamin A supplementation in Brazilian pregnant and postpartum women: a systematic review [2015]
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status in Brazilian pregnant women [2009]
• Cambodia
  • Nutrients
    • The Economic Burden of Malnutrition in Pregnant Women and Children under 5 Years of Age in Cambodia [2016]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Polyunsaturated fatty acids and fetal brain development [2015]
    • Sugar substitutes during pregnancy [2014]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Vitamin D supplementation: Recommendations for Canadian mothers and infants [2007]
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
    • Adherence to Canada's Food Guide Recommendations during Pregnancy: Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health [2017]
  • Health Canada
    • Prenatal Nutrition
  • Nutrients
    • Both Mother and Infant Require a Vitamin D Supplement to Ensure That Infants’ Vitamin D Status Meets Current Guidelines [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Current Recommended Vitamin D Intake Guideline for Diet and Supplements During Pregnancy Is Not Adequate to Achieve Vitamin D Sufficiency for Most Pregnant Women [2016]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Canadian Consensus on Female Nutrition: Adolescence, Reproduction, Menopause, and Beyond [2016]
• China
  • Nutrition Journal
    • Prevalence and influence factors of vitamin A deficiency of Chinese pregnant women [2016]
• Denmark
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Mother’s dietary quality during pregnancy and offspring’s dietary quality in adolescence: Follow-up from a national birth cohort study of 19,582 mother–offspring pairs [2019]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
    • Assessment of Vitamin A Supplementation Practices in Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Evidence to Implementation [2021]
• Ethiopia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Dietary diversity among pregnant women and associated factors in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Scientific World Journal
    • A Narrative Review of Nutritional Malpractices, Motivational Drivers, and Consequences in Pregnant Women: Evidence from Recent Literature and Program Implications in Ethiopia [2021]
• Europe
  • Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
    • Nutrition During Pregnancy, Lactation and Early Childhood and its Implications for Maternal and Long-Term Child Health: The Early Nutrition Project Recommendations [2019]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Good maternal nutrition. The best start in life [2016]
• France, United States
  • PLoS ONE
    • Pregnancy Requires Major Changes in the Quality of the Diet for Nutritional Adequacy: Simulations in the French and the United States Populations [2016]
• Germany
  • Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
    • German National Consensus Recommendations on Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy by the ‘Healthy Start - Young Family Network' [2013]
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Diet and Lifestyle Before and During Pregnancy – Practical Recommendations of the Germany-wide Healthy Start – Young Family Network [2018]
• India
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Maternal Vitamin B12 Status During Pregnancy and Its Association With Outcomes of Pregnancy and Health of the Offspring: A Systematic Review and Implications for Policy in India [2021]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Pooled estimate of vitamin D deficiency among pregnant women in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• International
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
    • Expert consensus on an open-access United Nations International Multiple Micronutrient Antenatal Preparation–multiple micronutrient supplement product specification [2020]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • WHO recommendations on antenatal nutrition: an update on multiple micronutrient supplements [2020]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) recommendations on adolescent, preconception, and maternal nutrition: “Think Nutrition First” [2015]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Dietary guideline adherence during preconception and pregnancy: A systematic review [2020]
  • Nature Reviews Endocrinology
    • Micronutrient deficiencies in pregnancy worldwide: health effects and prevention [2016]
  • Nutrients
    • Is Supplementation with Micronutrients Still Necessary during Pregnancy? A Review [2021]
    • Are Probiotics and Prebiotics Safe for Use during Pregnancy and Lactation? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • Maternal Nutrition Programming in the context of the 2016 WHO Antenatal Care Guidelines [2018]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Nutrition for Pregnancy [2013]
• Italy
  • Nutrients
    • Maternal Diet and Nutrient Requirements in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding. An Italian Consensus Document [2016]
• Latvia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Proper maternal nutrition during pregnancy planning and pregnancy: a healthy start in life (2017) [2017]
• Lebanon
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Development of national dietary and lifestyle guidelines for pregnant women in Lebanon [2021]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Nutrients
    • Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation During Pregnancy on Maternal, Birth, Child Health and Development Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
• Middle-income countries
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
    • Interventions to increase adherence to micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy: a systematic review [2021]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Companion Statement on Vitamin D and Sun Exposure in Pregnancy and Infancy in New Zealand [2020]
  • Nutrients
    • Dietary Patterns in Pregnancy in New Zealand—Influence of Maternal Socio-Demographic, Health and Lifestyle Factors [2016]
• Philippines
  • Department of Health Philippines
    • MNCHN Strategy Manual of Operations [2011]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Comparison of Polish and international guidelines on diet supplements in pregnancy — review [2021]
    • Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians recommendations on supplementation during pregnancy [2020]
• South Asia
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Prevalence of Vitamin A Deficiency in South Asia: Causes, Outcomes, and Possible Remedies [2013]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • The quality of maternal nutrition and infant feeding counselling during antenatal care in South Asia [2021]
• South-East Asia
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Scoping Review of Intervention Strategies for Improving Coverage and Uptake of Maternal Nutrition Services in Southeast Asia [2021]
• Spain
  • Nutrients
    • Food Consumption during Pregnancy and Post-Partum. ECLIPSES Study [2019]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Diet, medication use and drug intake during pregnancy: data from the consecutive Swiss Health Surveys of 2007 and 2012 [2017]
• Thailand
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Thailand nutrition in transition: situation and challenges of maternal and child nutrition [2013]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Open
    • Vitamin B12 status in women of childbearing age in the UK and its relationship with national nutrient intake guidelines: results from two National Diet and Nutrition Surveys [2016]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Nutrition: improving maternal and child nutrition [2015]
    • Maternal and child nutrition [2014]
  • Scottish Government
    • Scottish maternal and infant nutrition survey 2017 [2018]
• United States
  • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
    • Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Nutrition and Lifestyle for a Healthy Pregnancy Outcome [2014]
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Maternal and Child Outcomes Associated With the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) [2022]
    • Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Maternal and Child Health: An Updated Systematic Review [2016]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Consumption of Raw or Unpasteurized Milk and Milk Products by Pregnant Women and Children [2014]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • ACOG Practice Advisory: Update on Seafood Consumption During Pregnancy [2017]
    • Vitamin D: Screening and Supplementation During Pregnancy [2011]
  • Nutrients
    • Evidence-Based Recommendations for an Optimal Prenatal Supplement for Women in the U.S., Part Two: Minerals [2021]
• Western countries
  • Nutrients
    • Dietary Interventions for Healthy Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review of Tools to Promote a Healthy Antenatal Dietary Intake [2020]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Nutritional interventions update: zinc supplements during pregnancy [2021]
    • Nutritional interventions update: vitamin D supplements during pregnancy [2020]
    • Nutritional interventions update: multiple micronutrient supplements during pregnancy [2020]
    • Micronutrient survey manual [2020]
    • Essential nutrition actions: mainstreaming nutrition through the life-course [2019]
    • Multiple micronutrient powders for home (point of use) fortification of foods in pregnant women: a systematic review [2011]
    • Guideline: use of multiple micronutrient powders for home fortification of foods consumed by pregnant women [2011]
    • Programming of chronic disease by impaired fetal nutrition [2002]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Prolonged pregnancy

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Prolonged pregnancy
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Guidelines for the Management of Pregnancy at 41+0 to 42+0 Weeks [2017]
• Denmark
  • BMJ Open
    • Routine induction in late-term pregnancies: follow-up of a Danish induction of labour paradigm [2019]
• Germany, Switzerland, Austria
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • S1-Guideline: Management of Late-term and Post-term Pregnancy [2014]
• International
  • Reproductive Health
    • Management of pregnancy at and beyond 41 completed weeks of gestation in low-risk women: a secondary analysis of two WHO multi-country surveys on maternal and newborn health [2017]
  • World Association of Perinatal Medicine
    • Guidelines for the management of postterm pregnancy [2010]
• Netherlands
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes of late- and postterm pregnancies in advanced maternal age: A national cohort study [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Management of late-term pregnancy in midwifery- and obstetrician-led care [2019]
    • Perinatal death beyond 41 weeks pregnancy: an evaluation of causes and substandard care factors as identified in perinatal audit in the Netherlands [2018]
• Sweden
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Routine ultrasound examination at 41 weeks of gestation and risk of post-term severe adverse fetal outcome: a retrospective evaluation of two units, within the same hospital, with different guidelines [2014]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Definition of Term Pregnancy [2013]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Respiratory tract diseases, hypersensitivity in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Monitoring asthma in pregnancy: a discussion paper [2013]
  • Australian Prescriber
    • Asthma drugs in pregnancy and lactation [2013]
  • Breathe
    • Managing asthma in pregnancy [2015]
  • National Asthma Council Australia
    • Managing asthma during pregnancy
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
    • The SOMANZ Position Statement on Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy and Post Partum [2021]
• Europe
  • EUROmediCAT
    • Use of asthma medication during pregnancy and risk of specific congenital anomalies: A European case-malformed control study [2015]
  • European Cystic Fibrosis Society
    • Guidelines for the management of pregnancy in women with cystic fibrosis [2008]
• Europe, Australia, New Zealand
  • European Respiratory Journal
    • ERS/TSANZ Task Force Statement on the management of reproduction and pregnancy in women with airways diseases [2020]
• Europe, United States
  • Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
    • Drugs during pregnancy and breast feeding in women diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis - An update [2018]
• France
  • Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
    • Pregnancy outcome in women with cystic fibrosis and poor pulmonary function [2020]
• International
  • Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute
    • Statement on pregnancy in pulmonary hypertension from the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute [2015]
  • Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
    • Contemporary best practice in the management of pulmonary embolism during pregnancy [2020]
• Italy
  • Respiratory Medicine
    • A case-control study on pregnancy in Italian Cystic Fibrosis women. Data from the Italian Registry [2018]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Annals of Thoracic Medicine
    • Saudi Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension: Pregnancy in pulmonary hypertension [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • PLoS ONE
    • Asthma Management in Pregnancy [2013]
• United States
  • American Thoracic Society
    • An Official American Thoracic Society/Society of Thoracic Radiology Clinical Practice Guideline: Evaluation of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism In Pregnancy [2011]
  • Journal for Nurse Practitioners
    • The Pregnant Patient With Asthma: Assessment and Management [2016]
  • Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology
    • The Treatment of Allergic Respiratory Disease During Pregnancy [2016]
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
    • Working Group Report on Managing Asthma During Pregnancy: Recommendations for Pharmacologic Treatment--Update 2004 [2004]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Rh isoimmunization

• Australia
  • Australian Red Cross Blood Service
    • Haemolytic disease of the newborn
  • Medical Services Advisory Committee
    • Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) for fetal Rhesus D genotype [2019]
  • National Blood Authority
    • Prophylactic use of Rh D immunoglobulin in pregnancy care [2021]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Approach to red blood cell antibody testing during pregnancy: Answers to commonly asked questions [2020]
  • Ontario Health
    • Noninvasive Fetal RhD Blood Group Genotyping: A Health Technology Assessment [2020]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Prevention of Rh Alloimmunization [2018]
    • Routine Non-invasive Prenatal Prediction of Fetal RHD Genotype in Canada: The Time is Here [2017]
• France
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Effectiveness and costs of non-invasive foetal RHD genotyping in rhesus-D negative mothers: a French multicentric two-arm study of 850 women [2018]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Targeted antenatal anti-D prophylaxis for RhD-negative pregnant women: a systematic review [2020]
    • Appropriate provision of anti-D prophylaxis to RhD negative pregnant women: a scoping review [2014]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO/ICM guidelines for preventing Rhesus disease: A call to action [2021]
  • Pediatric Research
    • Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and Rhesus disease of the newborn: incidence and impairment estimates for 2010 at regional and global levels [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn due to Rh(D) incompatibility: A preventable disease that still produces significant morbidity and mortality in children [2020]
    • Antenatal and postpartum prevention of Rh alloimmunization: A systematic review and GRADE analysis [2020]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Anti D immunoglobin for the prevention of RHD Haemolytic disease of the newborn [2012]
• Italy
  • Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale e Immunoematologia
    • Recommendations for the prevention and treatment of haemolytic disease of the foetus and newborn [2015]
    • Survey on the prevention and incidence of haemolytic disease of the newborn in Italy [2013]
• Netherlands
  • BMJ
    • Sensitivity of fetal RHD screening for safe guidance of targeted anti-D immunoglobulin prophylaxis: prospective cohort study of a nationwide programme in the Netherlands [2016]
• New Zealand
  • New Zealand College of Midwives
    • Anti-D prophylaxis administration during pregnancy and early postpartum [2021]
  • Starship
    • Hydrops fetalis [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Routine administration of Anti-D: the ethical case for offering pregnant women fetal RHD genotyping and a review of policy and practice [2014]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guideline for blood grouping and red cell antibody testing in pregnancy [2016]
    • BCSH guideline for the use of anti-D immunoglobulin for the prevention of haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn [2014]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • High-throughput non-invasive prenatal testing for fetal RHD genotype [2016]
    • Routine antenatal anti-D prophylaxis for women who are rhesus D negative [2008]
  • NHS England
    • Management of fetal anaemia secondary to red cell alloimmunisation [2015]
  • Transfusion Medicine
    • Implementation of high-throughput non-invasive prenatal testing for fetal RHD genotype testing in England: Results of a cross-sectional survey of maternity units and expert interviews [2020]
• United States
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Clinical Guideline #8: The fetus at risk for anemia–diagnosis and management [2015]
  • Transfusion
    • It’s time to phase-in RHD genotyping for patients with a serological weak D phenotype [2014]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Rh(D) Incompatibility: Screening [2004]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Skin diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Assessment and management of itchy skin in pregnancy [2021]
    • Management of pigmented skin lesions during pregnancy [2019]
• Belgium
  • Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
    • Practical recommendations for systemic treatment in psoriasis according to age, pregnancy, metabolic syndrome, mental health, psoriasis subtype and treatment history (BETA-PSO: Belgian Evidence-based Treatment Advice in Psoriasis; part 1) [2020]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Pruritus in pregnancy: Treatment of dermatoses unique to pregnancy [2013]
  • CMAJ
    • Occurrence of pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes during isotretinoin therapy [2016]
• Denmark
  • JAMA Dermatology
    • Evaluation of Association Between Oral and Topical Terbinafine Use in Pregnancy and Risk of Major Malformations and Spontaneous Abortion [2020]
• India
  • Indian Dermatology Online Journal
    • Washout Period for Pregnancy Post Isotretinoin Therapy [2020]
• International
  • Advances in Dermatology and Allergology
    • The use of biological drugs in psoriasis patients prior to pregnancy, during pregnancy and lactation: a review of current clinical guidelines [2020]
  • Frontiers in Medicine
    • A Systematic Review of Treatment Options and Clinical Outcomes in Pemphigoid Gestationis [2020]
  • Medicina
    • State-of-the-Art Review of Pregnancy-Related Psoriasis [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
    • Taiwanese Dermatological Association consensus for the management of atopic dermatitis: A 2020 update [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Pregnancy outcomes in women with vitiligo: A Taiwanese nationwide cohort study [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
    • Skin eruptions specific to pregnancy: an overview [2013]
• United States
  • International Journal of Women's Dermatology
    • Management guidelines for pregnant healthcare workers exposed to infectious dermatoses [2020]
    • New changes in pregnancy and lactation labelling: Review of dermatologic drugs [2019]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Smoking in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Management of smoking in pregnant women [2014]
  • BMC Medicine
    • Use of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies during pregnancy is not associated with increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes: a population-based cohort study [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Benefits of not smoking during pregnancy for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their babies: a retrospective cohort study using linked data [2019]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Tobacco smoking
  • Implementation Science Communications
    • Improving implementation of smoking cessation guidelines in pregnancy care: development of an intervention to address system, maternity service leader and clinician factors [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Improving Clinicians’ Implementation of Guidelines to Help Women Stop Smoking in Pregnancy: Developing Evidence-Based Print and Video Materials [2021]
    • Do Clinicians Ask Pregnant Women about Exposures to Tobacco and Cannabis Smoking, Second-Hand-Smoke and E-Cigarettes? An Australian National Cross-Sectional Survey [2017]
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
    • Provision of Antenatal Smoking Cessation Support: A Survey With Pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women [2015]
• Brazil
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
    • Smoking and Adverse Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Brazil [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of pre-gestational and gestational smoking and factors associated with smoking cessation during pregnancy, Brazil, 2011-2012 [2019]
  • Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
    • Activities of the healthcare team for women who smoke during pregnancy and the puerperium [2014]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Smoking cessation therapy during pregnancy [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Smoking during Pregnancy: Findings from the 2009–2010 Canadian Community Health Survey [2014]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy And Relapse After Childbirth In Canada
• China
  • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
    • Maternal tobacco exposure and health-related quality of life during pregnancy: a national-based study of pregnant women in China [2021]
  • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
    • Health-Related Quality of Life Among Pregnant Women With Pre-pregnancy Smoking and Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy in China: National Cross-sectional Study [2022]
  • Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
    • Exposure to Secondhand Tobacco Smoke and Interventions Among Pregnant Women in China: A Systematic Review [2015]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Tobacco and pregnancy [2019]
• Europe, United States
  • Harm Reduction Journal
    • Potential effects of using non-combustible tobacco and nicotine products during pregnancy: a systematic review [2020]
• Finland
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The association of maternal-fetal attachment with smoking and smoking cessation during pregnancy in The FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Associations between maternal age and socioeconomic status with smoking during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy: a register-based study of 932 671 women in Finland from 2000 to 2015 [2020]
    • Changes in objectively measured smoking in pregnancy by time and legislative changes in Finland: a retrospective cohort study [2016]
• France
  • International Journal of Public Health
    • Trends in Tobacco Smoking in Pregnant Women: Data From French National Perinatal Surveys [2021]
  • Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
    • Smoking and smoking cessation in pregnancy. Synthesis of a systematic review [2020]
  • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
    • Smoking during pregnancy: a difficult problem to face. Results of a French multi-center study [2016]
• Iceland
  • European Journal of Public Health
    • Smoking and obesity among pregnant women in Iceland 2001–2010 [2015]
  • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
    • Smoking during pregnancy: Childbirth and Health Study in Primary Care in Iceland [2014]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Health providers’ and pregnant women’s perspectives about smoking cessation support: a COM-B analysis of a global systematic review of qualitative studies [2021]
    • Health outcomes of smoking during pregnancy and the postpartum period: an umbrella review [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • What components of smoking cessation care during pregnancy are implemented by health providers? A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
    • Systematic critical review of previous economic evaluations of smoking cessation during pregnancy [2015]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Special Issue on the Effects of Prenatal Smoking/Nicotine Exposure on the Child’s Health [2021]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • National, regional, and global prevalence of smoking during pregnancy in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Determination of Urinary Cotinine Cut-Off Concentrations for Pregnant Women in the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) [2020]
    • Individual and Regional Characteristics Associated with Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy in Japan: Healthy Parents and Children 21 [2019]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Decreased head circumference at birth associated with maternal tobacco smoke exposure during pregnancy on the Japanese prospective birth cohort study [2021]
• Jordan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Trends of maternal waterpipe, cigarettes, and dual tobacco smoking in Jordan. A decade of lost opportunities [2021]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Facilitating smoking cessation in patients who smoke: a large-scale cross-sectional comparison of fourteen groups of healthcare providers [2019]
    • Government supervision on quality of smoking-cessation counselling in midwifery practices: a qualitative exploration [2017]
• Peru
  • Global Health Research and Policy
    • The impact of anti-tobacco legislation on birth weight in Peru [2020]
• South Africa
  • International Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Maternal Tobacco use during Pregnancy in South Africa: Results from a National Population-based Survey [2019]
• Sweden
  • BMJ
    • Maternal smoking during pregnancy and fractures in offspring: national register based sibling comparison study [2020]
  • European Journal of Public Health
    • Smoking during pregnancy among immigrants to Sweden, 1992–2008: the effects of secular trends and time since migration [2013]
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
    • Maternal smoking and smokeless tobacco use during pregnancy and offspring development: sibling analysis in an intergenerational Swedish cohort [2021]
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
    • Smoking During Pregnancy Among Immigrant Women With Same-Origin and Swedish-Born Partners [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • Addictive Behaviors
    • Smoking and vaping patterns during pregnancy and the postpartum: A longitudinal UK cohort survey [2021]
  • Addictive Behaviors Reports
    • Stop smoking practitioner consensus on barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation in pregnancy and how to address these: A modified Delphi survey [2019]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Attitudes to E-Cigarettes and Cessation Support for Pregnant Women from English Stop Smoking Services: A Mixed Methods Study [2019]
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
    • Using a cross-cohort comparison design to test the role of maternal smoking in pregnancy in child mental health and learning: evidence from two UK cohorts born four decades apart [2020]
  • National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training
    • Smoking cessation: a briefing for midwifery staff [2016]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Smoking: acute, maternity and mental health services [2013]
    • Smoking: stopping in pregnancy and after childbirth [2010]
  • NHS Digital
    • Statistics on Women's Smoking Status at Time of Delivery: England
  • PLoS ONE
    • Electronic cigarette use (vaping) and patterns of tobacco cigarette smoking in pregnancy–evidence from a population-based maternity survey in England [2021]
    • Women’s Longitudinal Patterns of Smoking during the Pre-Conception, Pregnancy and Postnatal Period: Evidence from the UK Infant Feeding Survey [2016]
  • Population Health Metrics
    • Small area synthetic estimates of smoking prevalence during pregnancy in England [2015]
  • Public Health England
    • Characteristics of women who stop smoking in pregnancy
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Interventions for Tobacco Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Women: An Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2021]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Tobacco and Nicotine Cessation During Pregnancy [2020]
  • American Journal of Health Promotion
    • Smoking is Bad for Babies: Obstetric Care Providers’ Use of Best Practice Smoking Cessation Counseling Techniques [2013]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Trends in smoking during pregnancy by socioeconomic characteristics in the United States, 2010–2017 [2020]
    • Electronic cigarettes may not be a “safer alternative” of conventional cigarettes during pregnancy: evidence from the nationally representative PRAMS data [2020]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Smoking Prevalence and Cessation Before and During Pregnancy: Data From the Birth Certificate, 2014 [2016]
    • Tobacco Use and Pregnancy
  • Pediatrics
    • Maternal Smoking Before and During Pregnancy and the Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death [2019]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Maternal cigarette smoking before and during pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth: A dose–response analysis of 25 million mother–infant pairs [2020]
  • Preventive Medicine
    • Smoking Prevalence Among U.S. National Samples of Pregnant Women [2020]
    • Decreasing smoking during pregnancy: Potential economic benefit of reducing sudden unexpected infant death [2020]
    • Nicotine replacement therapy and other interventions for pregnant smokers: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2009–2010 [2015]
  • Preventive Medicine Reports
    • Social determinants of smoke exposure during pregnancy: Findings from waves 1 & 2 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study [2018]
    • Clinicians’ awareness of the Affordable Care Act mandate to provide comprehensive tobacco cessation treatment for pregnant women covered by Medicaid [2015]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Prevalence and patterns of cigarette smoking before and during early and late pregnancy according to maternal characteristics: the first national data based on the 2003 birth certificate revision, United States, 2016 [2019]
  • SSM - Population Health
    • Disparities in smoking during pregnancy by sexual orientation and race-ethnicity [2021]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Persons: Interventions [2021]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendations for the prevention and management of tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure in pregnancy [2013]
    • Gender, women, and the tobacco epidemic [2010]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Stillbirth, neonatal mortality

• Algeria
  • African Health Sciences
    • Socio-demographic determinants of neonatal mortality in Algeria according to MICS4 data (2012–2013) [2021]
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Perinatal deaths in Australia 2013–2014 [2018]
    • Stillbirths and neonatal deaths
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Stillbirth care
  • Scientific Reports
    • Stillbirth risk prediction using machine learning for a large cohort of births from Western Australia, 1980–2015 [2020]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
    • PSANZ Clinical Practice Guideline for Care Around Stillbirth and Neonatal Death [2019]
• Austria
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Institutional guidelines on maternal care and investigations following antepartum stillbirth - a national survey [2021]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Epidemiology of Antepartum Stillbirths in Austria—A Population-Based Study between 2008 and 2020 [2021]
• Bangladesh
  • Global Health Action
    • The importance of intersectoral factors in promoting equity-oriented universal health coverage: a multilevel analysis of social determinants affecting neonatal infant and under-five mortality in Bangladesh [2016]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Child mortality in Bangladesh – why, when, where and how? A national survey-based analysis [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Exploring association between place of delivery and newborn care with early-neonatal mortality in Bangladesh [2022]
    • Trends and projections of under-5 mortality in Bangladesh including the effects of maternal high-risk fertility behaviours and use of healthcare services [2021]
    • When, Where, and Why Are Babies Dying? Neonatal Death Surveillance and Review in Bangladesh [2016]
• Brazil
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Birth in Brazil survey: neonatal mortality, pregnancy and childbirth quality of care [2014]
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Fetal deaths in Brazil: a systematic review [2015]
• Burundi
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Time trends, geographical, socio-economic, and gender disparities in neonatal mortality in Burundi: evidence from the demographic and health surveys, 2010–2016 [2020]
• Canada
  • Canadian Journal of Public Health
    • Stillbirth in Canada: anachronistic definition and registration processes impede public health surveillance and clinical care [2021]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Supporting and communicating with families experiencing a perinatal loss [2018]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Perinatal and Maternal Mortality & Morbidity Review Process [2017]
  • Public Health Reports
    • Stillbirth Among Arab Women in Canada, 1981-2015 [2020]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Stillbirth Investigation [2020]
    • Management of Pregnancy Subsequent to Stillbirth [2018]
    • Fetal and Perinatal Autopsy in Prenatally Diagnosed Fetal Abnormalities with Normal Chromosome Analysis [2018]
• Canada, France
  • CMAJ Open
    • A population-based comparison of preterm neonatal deaths (22–34 gestational weeks) in France and Ontario: a cohort study [2019]
• China
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Stillbirths in China: a nationwide survey [2021]
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Neonatal mortality and morbidity among infants between 24 to 31 complete weeks: a multicenter survey in China from 2013 to 2014 [2016]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Apgar score and neonatal mortality in China: an observational study from a national surveillance system [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Neonatal mortality and leading causes of deaths: a descriptive study in China, 2014–2018 [2021]
    • Effect of basic public health service project on neonatal health services and neonatal mortality in China: a longitudinal time-series study [2020]
  • China CDC Weekly
    • The Trend and Cause of Mortality Burden in Infancy — China, 1990–2019 [2021]
    • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Eliminating Preventable Newborn Deaths — China in Action [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Preterm neonatal mortality in China during 2009–2018: A retrospective study [2021]
• Croatia
  • BioMed Research International
    • Perinatal Health Statistics as the Basis for Perinatal Quality Assessment in Croatia [2015]
• Denmark
  • BMJ Open
    • Are the Danish stillbirth rates still record low? A nationwide ecological study [2020]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Social and ethnic disparities in stillbirth and infant death in Denmark, 2005–2016 [2021]
• Developing countries
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • A Meta-Analysis of Socio-Demographic Factors for Perinatal Mortality in Developing Countries: A Subgroup Analysis of the National Surveys and Small Scale Studies [2014]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • When do newborns die? A systematic review of timing of overall and cause-specific neonatal deaths in developing countries [2016]
• East Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prevalence of stillbirth and its associated factors in East Africa: generalized linear mixed modeling [2021]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Summary report on the WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF joint intercountry meeting of national managers of maternal and child health: towards accelerating the reduction of neonatal mortality in the Region, Amman, Jordan, 24–27 April 2016 [2016]
• Ethiopia
  • African Health Sciences
    • Determinants of neonatal mortality in Ethiopia: an analysis of the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey [2020]
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Adverse fetal outcomes and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Trends of stillbirth among reproductive-age women in Ethiopia based on Ethiopian demographic and health surveys: a multivariate decomposition analysis [2020]
    • Magnitude and trend of perinatal mortality and its relationship with inter-pregnancy interval in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Neonatal mortality in Ethiopia: trends and determinants [2013]
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Factors affecting neonatal mortality in the general population: evidence from the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS)—multilevel analysis [2019]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Neonatal mortality and associated factors in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional population-based study [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Spatial distribution of stillbirth and associated factors in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis [2020]
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Perinatal Mortality Trends in Ethiopia [2014]
  • International Journal of Pediatrics
    • The Magnitude of Neonatal Mortality and Its Predictors in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Incidence of neonatal mortality and its predictors among live births in Ethiopia: Gompertz gamma shared frailty model [2020]
  • Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology
    • Logistic regression analysis on the determinants of stillbirth in Ethiopia [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Spatial pattern of perinatal mortality and its determinants in Ethiopia: Data from Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey 2016 [2020]
    • Inequalities and trends in Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) in Ethiopia: Evidence from the Ethiopia Demographic and Health Surveys, 2000–2016 [2020]
  • Tropical Medicine and Health
    • Risk factor of neonatal mortality in Ethiopia: multilevel analysis of 2016 Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
• Europe
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Socioeconomic inequalities in stillbirth rates in Europe: measuring the gap using routine data from the Euro-Peristat Project [2016]
  • Euro-Peristat
    • Producing valid statistics when legislation, culture and medical practices differ for births at or before the threshold of survival: report of a European workshop [2020]
• Europe, United States, Canada
  • BMJ Open
    • Impact of regionalisation and case-volume on neonatal and perinatal mortality: an umbrella review [2020]
• Gambia
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • The large contribution of twins to neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in The Gambia, a 5-year prospective study [2016]
• Germany
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Temporal trends in fetal mortality at and beyond term and induction of labor in Germany 2005–2012: data from German routine perinatal monitoring [2015]
    • Fetal mortality at and beyond term in singleton pregnancies in Baden-Wuerttemberg/Germany 2004–2009 [2013]
• Ghana
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Survival analysis of neonatal mortality in Ghana using three population-based surveys [2022]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Geospatial analysis of determinants of neonatal mortality in Ghana [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Evaluation of neonatal mortality data completeness and accuracy in Ghana [2021]
• Guinea
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Disparities in use of skilled birth attendants and neonatal mortality rate in Guinea over two decades [2022]
• High-income countries
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Risks of stillbirth and neonatal death with advancing gestation at term: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of 15 million pregnancies [2019]
• India
  • BMJ Open
    • Stillbirth among women in nine states in India: rate and risk factors in study of 886,505 women from the annual health survey [2018]
    • Estimation of perinatal mortality rate for institutional births in Rajasthan state, India, using capture–recapture technique [2015]
  • Indian Journal of Community Medicine
    • Differential and Determinants of Neonatal Mortality: A Comparative Study in Northern and Southern Regions of India [2021]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • State of newborn health in India [2016]
  • Lancet
    • Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–17 [2020]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Operational Guidelines for establishing Sentinel Stillbirth Surveillance System [2016]
• India, Pakistan
  • Reproductive Health
    • Gender variations in neonatal and early infant mortality in India and Pakistan: a secondary analysis from the Global Network Maternal Newborn Health Registry [2020]
• International
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Making stillbirths visible: a systematic review of globally reported causes of stillbirth [2017]
    • Optimising the International Classification of Diseases to identify the maternal condition in the case of perinatal death [2016]
    • Giving a voice to millions: developing the WHO application of ICD-10 to deaths during the perinatal period: ICD-PM [2016]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Seeking order amidst chaos: a systematic review of classification systems for causes of stillbirth and neonatal death, 2009–2014 [2016]
    • Evaluation of an international educational programme for health care professionals on best practice in the management of a perinatal death: IMproving Perinatal mortality Review and Outcomes Via Education (IMPROVE) [2016]
    • Classification systems for causes of stillbirth and neonatal death, 2009–2014: an assessment of alignment with characteristics for an effective global system [2016]
    • Counting every stillbirth and neonatal death through mortality audit to improve quality of care for every pregnant woman and her baby [2015]
    • Count every newborn; a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data [2015]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Neonatal mortality burden and trends in UNHCR refugee camps, 2006–2017: a retrospective analysis [2021]
  • Child Mortality Estimates
    • Child Mortality Estimates
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Antenatal interventions for preventing stillbirth, fetal loss and perinatal death: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews [2020]
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Childhood Mortality
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Setting research priorities to improve global newborn health and prevent stillbirths by 2025 [2015]
  • Lancet
    • Global, regional, and national estimates and trends in stillbirths from 2000 to 2019: a systematic assessment [2021]
    • Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 [2016]
    • Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 [2014]
  • Nature
    • Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017 [2019]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Neonatal Mortality Levels for 193 Countries in 2009 with Trends since 1990: A Systematic Analysis of Progress, Projections, and Priorities [2011]
  • Population Health Metrics
    • Four decades of measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Demographic and Health Surveys: historical review [2021]
    • Every newborn-INDEPTH study: improving the measurement of pregnancy outcomes in population-based surveys [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Evidence of health inequity in child survival: spatial and Bayesian network analyses of stillbirth rates in 194 countries [2019]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • A Neglected Tragedy: The global burden of stillbirths [2020]
    • Neonatal mortality
    • Levels and Trends in Child Mortality
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Ending Preventable Newborn Deaths and Stillbirths by 2030 [2020]
  • Vaccine
    • Neonatal death: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2016]
• Iran
  • Annali di Igiene
    • Incidence and maternal-fetal risk factors of stillbirth. A population-based historical cohort and a nested casecontrol study [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Proposing a machine-learning based method to predict stillbirth before and during delivery and ranking the features: nationwide retrospective cross-sectional study [2021]
  • Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran
    • Risk factors of neonatal mortality in Iran: a systematic review [2019]
• Ireland
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Intrapartum fetal deaths and unexpected neonatal deaths in the Republic of Ireland: 2011 – 2014; a descriptive study [2018]
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Investigation and Management of late fetal intrauterine death and stillbirth [2011]
  • Midwifery
    • Governance of maternity services: Effects on the management of perinatal deaths and bereavement services [2021]
    • Impact of bereavement care and pregnancy loss services on families: Findings and recommendations from Irish inquiry reports [2020]
• Japan
  • Pediatric Research
    • Impact of being large-for-gestational-age on neonatal mortality and morbidities in extremely premature infants [2021]
  • Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
    • Recommendations for Preventing Stillbirth: A Regional Population-Based Study in Japan during 2007-2011 [2015]
• Jordan
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Rate, Risk Factors, and Causes of Neonatal Deaths in Jordan: Analysis of Data From Jordan Stillbirth and Neonatal Surveillance System (JSANDS) [2020]
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
    • The Jordan Stillbirth and Neonatal Mortality Surveillance (JSANDS) System: Evaluation Study [2021]
• Kenya
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Neonatal mortality in Kenyan hospitals: a multisite, retrospective, cohort study [2021]
  • International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS
    • Determinants of Neonatal Mortality in Kenya: Evidence from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2014 [2021]
• Latin America
  • Clinics
    • Neonatal Near Miss: the need for a standard definition and appropriate criteria and the rationale for a prospective surveillance system [2015]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Causes of and factors associated with stillbirth in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review [2014]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of home-based postpartum care on neonatal mortality and exclusive breastfeeding practice in low-and-middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • BMJ Open Quality
    • Approaches, enablers, barriers and outcomes of implementing facility-based stillbirth and neonatal death audit in LMICs: a systematic review [2021]
  • International Journal of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
    • Review of the evidence for interventions to reduce perinatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries [2020]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Predictive Modeling for Perinatal Mortality in Resource-Limited Settings [2020]
  • Population Health Metrics
    • Stillbirth outcome capture and classification in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study [2021]
    • Stillbirth maternity care measurement and associated factors in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study [2021]
    • Birth, stillbirth and death registration data completeness, quality and utility in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Stillbirth 2010–2018: a prospective, population-based, multi-country study from the Global Network [2020]
    • Institutional deliveries and stillbirth and neonatal mortality in the Global Network's Maternal and Newborn Health Registry [2020]
    • Evaluating the effect of care around labor and delivery practices on early neonatal mortality in the Global Network’s Maternal and Newborn Health Registry [2020]
    • Stillbirth rates in low-middle income countries 2010 - 2013: a population-based, multi-country study from the Global Network [2015]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Association of maternal history of neonatal death with subsequent neonatal death across 56 low- and middle-income countries [2021]
  • Seminars in Perinatology
    • Challenges in Classification and Assignment of Causes of Stillbirths in Low- and Lower Middle-Income Countries [2019]
• Low-income countries
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood
    • Perinatal interventions and survival in resource-poor settings: which work, which don’t, which have the jury out? [2010]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • Home-based neonatal care by community health workers for preventing mortality in neonates in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2016]
• Macedonia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Perinatal mortality audit: North Macedonia 2019 [2021]
• Malawi
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Efforts to alter the trajectory of neonatal mortality in Malawi: evaluating relative effects of access to maternal care services and birth history risk factors [2018]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Obstetric Facility Quality and Newborn Mortality in Malawi: A Cross-Sectional Study [2016]
• Moldova
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • The experience of the implementation of perinatal audit in Moldova [2014]
• Myanmar
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Use of Maternal and Neonatal Health Services Associated with Neonatal Death in Myanmar [2019]
• Nepal
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • The burden of and factors associated with misclassification of intrapartum stillbirth: Evidence from a large scale multicentric observational study [2020]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Neonatal health in Nepal: analysis of absolute and relative inequalities and impact of current efforts to reduce neonatal mortality [2013]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • The burden of misclassification of antepartum stillbirth in Nepal [2019]
• Netherlands
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Intrapartum and neonatal mortality in low-risk term women in midwife-led care and obstetrician-led care at the onset of labor: A national matched cohort study [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Stillbirth and neonatal mortality in a subsequent pregnancy following stillbirth: a population-based cohort study [2022]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Decreasing trend in preterm birth and perinatal mortality, do disparities also decline? [2020]
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
    • Dutch guideline for clinical foetal-neonatal and paediatric post-mortem radiology, including a review of literature [2018]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Association Between Income and Perinatal Mortality in the Netherlands Across Gestational Age [2021]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Fetal and Infant Deaths web tool
  • Starship
    • Death of an infant in NICU [2019]
• Nigeria
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Trends in neonatal mortality in Nigeria and effects of bio-demographic and maternal characteristics [2015]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Using propensity scores to estimate the effectiveness of maternal and newborn interventions to reduce neonatal mortality in Nigeria [2020]
• Pakistan
  • BMC Public Health
    • Determinants of neonatal mortality in Pakistan: secondary analysis of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006¿07 [2014]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Cross-National Systematic Review of Neonatal Mortality and Postnatal Newborn Care: Special Focus on Pakistan [2017]
• Peru
  • BMC Public Health
    • Examining national and district-level trends in neonatal health in Peru through an equity lens: a success story driven by political will and societal advocacy [2016]
• Philippines
  • PLoS ONE
    • Stagnant Neonatal Mortality and Persistent Health Inequality in Middle-Income Countries: A Case Study of the Philippines [2013]
• Portugal
  • International Journal of Pediatrics
    • Biodemographic Analysis of Factors Related to Perinatal Mortality in Portugal (1988–2011) [2016]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Risk Factors for Cause-specific Mortality of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants in the Korean Neonatal Network [2015]
    • Recent Trends in Neonatal Mortality in Very Low Birth Weight Korean Infants: In Comparison with Japan and the USA [2011]
    • Decreasing Trends of Neonatal and Infant Mortality Rates in Korea: Compared with Japan, USA, and OECD Nations [2011]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Maternal age and risk of early neonatal mortality: a national cohort study [2021]
• Rwanda
  • International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS
    • Newborn Survival Case Study in Rwanda - Bottleneck Analysis and Projections in Key Maternal and Child Mortality Rates Using Lives Saved Tool (LiST) [2017]
• Senegal
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • What caused neonatal deaths in Senegal in 2017? a secondary analysis of 2017 DHS [2020]
• Serbia
  • Balkan Medical Journal
    • Trends and Causes of Neonatal Mortality in Serbia, 1997-2016 [2020]
• Solomon Islands
  • Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific
    • Preventable stillbirths in the Solomon Islands – A hidden tragedy [2020]
• South Africa
  • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
    • Economic evaluations of interventions to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality: a review of the evidence in LMICs and its implications for South Africa [2016]
  • Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology
    • Timing and cause of perinatal mortality for small-for-gestational-age babies in South Africa: critical periods and challenges with detection [2016]
  • Public Health
    • The impact of national health promotion policy on stillbirth and maternal mortality in South Africa [2021]
• South Africa, United Kingdom
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • The WHO application of ICD-10 to deaths during the perinatal period: ICD-PM: results from pilot database testing in South Africa and United Kingdom [2016]
    • Application of ICD-PM to preterm-related neonatal deaths in the UK and South Africa [2016]
• South Asia
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Perinatal Mortality in South Asia: Systematic Review of Observational Studies [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Factors associated with stillbirth in selected countries of South Asia: A systematic review of observational studies [2020]
• South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Hospital delivery and neonatal mortality in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: An ecological study [2021]
• Southern Europe
  • PLoS ONE
    • Economic crisis and stillbirth ratios: Evidence from Southern Europe [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings
    • Identifying Factors Associated with Neonatal Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa using Machine Learning [2021]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Determinants of adverse birth outcome in Sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of recent demographic and health surveys [2021]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Variation in neonatal mortality and its relation to country characteristics in sub-Saharan Africa: an ecological study [2017]
  • International Journal of Pediatrics
    • Incidence Density Rate of Neonatal Mortality and Predictors in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Application of the ICD-PM classification system to stillbirth in four sub-Saharan African countries [2019]
• Sudan
  • BMC Public Health
    • Neonatal mortality in Sudan: analysis of the Sudan household survey, 2010 [2013]
• Suriname
  • Global Health Action
    • Investigation of stillbirth causes in Suriname: application of the WHO ICD-PM tool to national-level hospital data [2020]
• Switzerland
  • BMJ Open
    • Retrospective cohort study of all deaths among infants born between 22 and 27 completed weeks of gestation in Switzerland over a 3-year period [2017]
• Taiwan
  • Pediatrics and Neonatology
    • Neonatal mortality among outborn versus inborn babies [2021]
• Tanzania
  • BMJ Global Health
    • A growing disadvantage of being born in an urban area? Analysing urban–rural disparities in neonatal mortality in 21 African countries with a focus on Tanzania [2022]
  • International Health
    • Trends, patterns and cause-specific neonatal mortality in Tanzania: a hospital-based retrospective survey [2021]
• Turkey
  • Central European Journal of Public Health
    • Recent Declines in Infant and Neonatal Mortality in Turkey from 2007 to 2012: Impact of Improvements in Health Policies [2016]
• Uganda
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • Applying a system dynamics modelling approach to explore policy options for improving neonatal health in Uganda [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Marvellous to mediocre: findings of national survey of UK practice and provision of care in pregnancies after stillbirth or neonatal death [2016]
    • Exploring the intangible economic costs of stillbirth [2015]
    • A structured review and exploration of the healthcare costs associated with stillbirth and a subsequent pregnancy in England and Wales [2013]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Trends in infant mortality and stillbirth rates in Scotland by socio-economic position, 2000–2018: a longitudinal ecological study [2021]
  • BMJ Open Quality
    • Assessment of the quality, content and perceived utility of local maternity guidelines in hospitals in England implementing the saving babies’ lives care bundle to reduce stillbirth [2020]
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
    • Variations in neonatal mortality, infant mortality, preterm birth and birth weight in England and Wales according to ethnicity and maternal country or region of birth: an analysis of linked national data from 2006 to 2012 [2020]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Maternal sleep position during pregnancy [2021]
  • NHS England
    • Saving Babies’ Lives Version Two: A care bundle for reducing perinatal mortality [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Stillbirth rates, service outcomes and costs of implementing NHS England’s Saving Babies’ Lives care bundle in maternity units in England: A cohort study [2021]
  • Public Health England
    • Pregnancy and early life: reducing stillbirth and infant death
  • Royal College of Pathologists
    • Guidelines on autopsy practice: Third trimester antepartum and intrapartum stillbirth [2017]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • UK stillbirth trends in over 11 million births provide no evidence to support effectiveness of Growth Assessment Protocol program [2020]
    • The Growth Assessment Protocol: a major cause of declining stillbirth rates in the UK [2020]
• United Kingdom, Ireland
  • BMJ Open
    • Socioeconomic inequalities and adverse pregnancy outcomes in the UK and Republic of Ireland: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Standard Terminology for Fetal, Infant, and Perinatal Deaths [2016]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Management of Stillbirth [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Birth weight differences between preterm stillbirths and live births: analysis of population-based studies from the U.S. and Sweden [2012]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fetal Deaths — United States, 2015–2017 [2020]
    • Fetal and Perinatal Mortality: United States, 2013 [2015]
    • Stillbirth
    • Linked Birth and Infant Death Data
    • Fetal Deaths
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Stillbirth Classification—Developing an International Consensus for Research: Executive Summary of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Workshop [2009]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Maternal and perinatal death and surveillance and response [2021]
    • Every newborn progress report 2019 [2020]
    • Reaching the every newborn national 2020 milestones: country progress, plans and moving forward [2017]
    • The WHO application of ICD-10 to deaths during the perinatal period: ICD-PM [2016]
    • Making Every Baby Count. Audit and review of stillbirths and neonatal deaths [2016]
    • Maternal complications and perinatal mortality: findings of the World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health [2014]
    • Every newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths [2014]
    • National, regional, and worldwide estimates of stillbirth rates in 2009 with trends since 1995 [2011]
    • Neonatal and perinatal mortality: country, regional and global estimates 2004 [2007]
    • Stillbirth
    • Newborns: improving survival and well-being: Fact sheet
    • Child data
• Zambia
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Factors associated with neonatal mortality in the general population: evidence from the 2007 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS); a cross sectional study [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Miscarriage

Substance use in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Managing opioid dependence in pregnancy – a general practice perspective [2013]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Substance use
  • O&G Magazine
    • Substance misuse and dependence in pregnancy [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Perinatal substance use: neonatal
    • Perinatal substance use: maternal
• Canada
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Multi-service prevention programs for pregnant and parenting women with substance use and multiple vulnerabilities: Program structure and clients’ perspectives on wraparound programming [2020]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Withdrawal Management and Treatment of Crystal Methamphetamine Addiction in Pregnancy: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2019]
    • Treatment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome due to Crystal Methamphetamine: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2019]
    • Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorders during Pregnancy: A Review of Comparative Clinical Effectiveness, Safety, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Cannabis use during pregnancy and postpartum [2020]
    • Effects of opioid use in pregnancy on pediatric development and behaviour in children older than age 2 [2019]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Managing infants born to mothers who have used opioids during pregnancy [2019]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Association of Maternal Opioid Use in Pregnancy With Adverse Perinatal Outcomes in Ontario, Canada, From 2012 to 2018 [2020]
  • Paediatrics & Child Health
    • Variations and similarities in clinical management of neonatal abstinence syndrome: Findings of a Canadian survey [2017]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Cannabis Use During Pregnancy and Lactation: A Practice Resources for Health Care Providers [2020]
    • Treating of Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy: Guideline Supplement [2018]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Substance Use in Pregnancy [2017]
• Ethiopia
  • Heliyon
    • The effect of substance use during pregnancy on neonatal outcomes in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• International
  • Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
    • Prevalence of Illicit Drug Use During Pregnancy: A Global Perspective [2020]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Addressing the Specific Needs of Women Who Use Drugs - Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and C and Syphilis [2021]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Methadone Prescribing and Administration in Pregnancy [2013]
• New Zealand
  • Starship
    • Drug dependency - infants born to drug dependent mothers [2018]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Caffeine exposure during pregnancy, small for gestational age birth and neonatal outcome – results from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study [2019]
• Republic of Korea
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Coffee: Associated Congenital Complications and Adverse Birth Outcomes [2021]
• Switzerland
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Midwives’ engagement in smoking- and alcohol-prevention in prenatal care before and after the introduction of practice guidelines in Switzerland: comparison of survey findings from 2008 and 2018 [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • BJPsych Bulletin
    • The ethics and management of cannabis use in pregnancy following decriminalisation and licensing for medical use: narrative review [2021]
  • BMJ
    • Alcohol, smoking, and other substance use in the perinatal period [2020]
  • GG&C Paediatric Guidelines
    • Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) [2019]
  • Public Health Scotland
    • Interventions to reduce illicit drug use during pregnancy [2017]
• United States
  • Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
    • ABM Clinical Protocol #21: Guidelines for Breastfeeding and Substance Use or Substance Use Disorder, Revised 2015 [2015]
  • Addiction
    • Possible Unintended Consequences for Pregnant Women of Legalizing Cannabis Use [2020]
    • Opioid Use Disorder Incidence and Treatment Among Incarcerated Pregnant People in the U.S.: Results from a National Surveillance Study [2020]
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Unhealthy Drug Use in Primary Care in Adolescents and Adults, Including Pregnant Persons: Updated Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2020]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome [2020]
    • Marijuana Use During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Implications for Neonatal and Childhood Outcomes [2018]
    • A Public Health Response to Opioid Use in Pregnancy [2017]
    • Neonatal Drug Withdrawal [2016]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy [2017]
    • Marijuana Use During Pregnancy and Lactation [2017]
    • Alcohol Abuse and Other Substance Use Disorders: Ethical Issues in Obstetric and Gynecologic Practice [2015]
    • Substance Abuse Reporting and Pregnancy: The Role of the Obstetrician-Gynecologist [2011]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • New persistent opioid use after acute opioid prescribing in pregnancy: a nationwide analysis [2020]
    • Consensus Guidelines and State Policies: The Gap Between Principle and Practice at the Intersection of Substance Use and Pregnancy [2020]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
    • Early lessons from maternal mortality review committees on drug-related deaths – time for obstetrical providers to take the lead in addressing addiction [2020]
  • Breastfeeding Medicine
    • Management of Cannabis Use in Breastfeeding Women: The Untapped Potential of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants [2020]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Evaluation of State-Led Surveillance of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome — Six U.S. States, 2018–2021 [2022]
    • Vital Signs: Prescription Opioid Pain Reliever Use During Pregnancy — 34 U.S. Jurisdictions, 2019 [2020]
    • Characteristics of Marijuana Use During Pregnancy — Eight States, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2017 [2020]
    • State Strategies to Address Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Infants Prenatally Exposed to Substances, Including Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome [2019]
    • Evaluation of State-Mandated Reporting of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome — Six States, 2013–2017 [2019]
    • CDC Grand Rounds: Public Health Strategies to Prevent Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome [2017]
    • Incidence of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome — 28 States, 1999–2013 [2016]
  • Current Obstetrics and Gynecology Reports
    • Caring for Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder in the USA: Expanding and Improving Treatment [2016]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Recreational Cannabis Legalization in the US and Maternal Use during the Preconception, Prenatal, and Postpartum Periods [2020]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Availability of Medications for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals in US Jails [2022]
    • Association of Recreational Cannabis Legalization With Maternal Cannabis Use in the Preconception, Prenatal, and Postpartum Periods [2021]
    • Association of Pregnancy and Insurance Status With Treatment Access for Opioid Use Disorder [2020]
    • Association of Punitive and Reporting State Policies Related to Substance Use in Pregnancy With Rates of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome [2019]
    • Association of Criminal Statutes for Opioid Use Disorder With Prevalence and Treatment Among Pregnant Women With Commercial Insurance in the United States [2019]
  • JAMA Pediatrics
    • Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Incidence and Health Care Costs in the United States, 2016 [2020]
  • Journal of Addiction Medicine
    • Treating Women Who Are Pregnant and Parenting for Opioid Use Disorder and the Concurrent Care of Their Infants and Children: Literature Review to Support National Guidance [2017]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • Increasing Incidence and Geographic Distribution of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: United States 2009-2012 [2015]
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
    • Substance use disorder treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women in residential and outpatient settings [2020]
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • The MATernaL and Infant NetworK to Understand Outcomes Associated with Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy (MAT-LINK): Surveillance Opportunity [2020]
  • Medicaid
    • Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Critical Role for Medicaid in the Care of Infants [2018]
  • New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
    • Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Pregnant Adults [2021]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Profile of Reported Alcohol, Tobacco, and Recreational Drug Use in Nulliparous Women [2020]
    • Polysubstance Use Among Pregnant Women With Opioid Use Disorder in the United States, 2007–2016 [2020]
    • Care for Incarcerated Pregnant People With Opioid Use Disorder: Equity and Justice Implications [2020]
    • Opioid Use in Pregnancy, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and Childhood Outcomes: Executive Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the March of Dimes Foundation [2017]
  • Pediatrics
    • Ferguson v. City of Charleston Redux: Motivated Reasoning and Coercive Interventions in Pregnancy [2020]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Medications for opioid use disorder among pregnant women referred by criminal justice agencies before and after Medicaid expansion: A retrospective study of admissions to treatment centers in the United States [2020]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Substance use disorders in pregnancy: clinical, ethical, and research imperatives of the opioid epidemic: a report of a joint workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and American Society of Addiction Medicine [2019]
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    • Preventing the Use of Marijuana: Focus on Women and Pregnancy [2019]
    • Medications to Treat Opioid Use During Pregnancy – An info sheet for providers [2019]
    • Clinical Guidance for Treating Pregnant and Parenting Women With Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants [2018]
    • A Collaborative Approach to the Treatment of Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorders [2016]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Unhealthy Drug Use: Screening [2020]
  • Women's Health Issues
    • Non-medical use of prescription opioids among pregnant US women [2017]
• United States, Australia
  • Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment
    • Managing Maternal Substance Use in the Perinatal Period: Current Concerns and Treatment Approaches in the United States and Australia [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Guidelines for identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Thyroid diseases in pregnancy

• Africa
  • Public Health Nutrition
    • Iodine nutrition status in Africa: potentially high prevalence of iodine deficiency in pregnancy even in countries classified as iodine sufficient [2021]
• Asia
  • Endocrine Journal
    • Screening and management of hypothyroidism in pregnancy: Results of an Asian survey [2014]
    • Management of hyperthyroidism during pregnancy in Asia [2014]
• Australia
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • The impact of mandatory iodine fortification and supplementation on pregnant and lactating women in Australia [2019]
  • Australian Prescriber
    • Thyroid disorders in pregnancy and postpartum [2017]
  • Clinical Biochemist Reviews
    • Reporting Thyroid Function Tests in Pregnancy [2015]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Thyroid dysfunction
• Brazil
  • Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Management of gestational hypothyroidism: results of a Brazilian survey [2015]
• Canada
  • CMAJ
    • Thyroid function testing and management during and after pregnancy among women without thyroid disease before pregnancy [2020]
  • Thyroid
    • Thyroid Laboratory Testing and Management in Women on Thyroid Replacement Before Pregnancy and Associated Pregnancy Outcomes [2021]
• Chile
  • Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Reference Ranges in the First Trimester of Pregnancy in an Iodine-Sufficient Country [2018]
• China
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Gestational TSH and FT4 Reference Intervals in Chinese Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2018]
  • International Journal of Endocrinology
    • Trimester- and Assay-Specific Thyroid Reference Intervals for Pregnant Women in China [2016]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Preconception Thyrotropin Levels and Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Chinese Women Aged 20 to 49 Years [2021]
• Czech Republic
  • Biomedical Papers
    • The prevalence of maternal hypothyroidism in first trimester screening from 11 to 14 weeks of gestation [2019]
• Denmark
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • Chronic diseases in the children of women with maternal thyroid dysfunction: a nationwide cohort study [2018]
• Egypt
  • European Journal of Endocrinology
    • Comparison of universal and targeted screening for thyroid dysfunction in pregnant Egyptian women [2014]
• Europe
  • European Thyroid Association
    • 2014 European Thyroid Association Guidelines for the Management of Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy and in Children [2014]
• Finland
  • European Thyroid Journal
    • The Increased Trend of Medical Treatment for Thyroid Diseases during Pregnancy: A 13-Year National Study [2021]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Trimester-specific thyroid-stimulating hormone: An Indian perspective [2018]
    • Prevalence of hypothyroidism in pregnancy: An epidemiological study from 11 cities in 9 states of India [2016]
    • Subclinical hypothyroidism in the first trimester of pregnancy in North India [2013]
• International
  • Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Thyroid Nodules and Cancer during Pregnancy, Post-partum and Preconception Planning: Addressing the Uncertainties and Challenges [2020]
  • European Journal of Endocrinology
    • Management of subclinical hypothyroidism in pregnancy: are we too simplistic? [2015]
  • European Thyroid Journal
    • Iodine Supplementation in Pregnancy and the Dilemma of Ambiguous Recommendations [2016]
• Iran
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Thyroid dysfunction in Iranian pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Prevalent Practices of Thyroid Diseases During Pregnancy Among Endocrinologists, Internists and General Practitioners [2015]
  • International Journal of Fertility & Sterility
    • Prevalence of Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Pregnant Women in Tehran-Iran [2014]
• Japan
  • Endocrine Journal
    • Mother’s iodine exposure and infants’ hypothyroidism: the Japan environment and children’s study [2021]
• Pakistan
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Thyroid disorders in pregnancy: An overview of literature from Pakistan [2013]
• Poland
  • Thyroid Research
    • Iodine prophylaxis in pregnant women in Poland - where we are? (update 2015) [2015]
• Portugal
  • Journal of Family & Reproductive Health
    • Controversial Screening for Thyroid Dysfunction in Preconception and Pregnancy: An Evidence-Based Review [2020]
• Republic of Korea
  • Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
    • Reference intervals of thyroid hormones during pregnancy in Korea, an iodine-replete area [2018]
• Russia
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Iodine Status of Women and Infants in Russia: A Systematic Review [2020]
• United Arab Emirates
  • Practical Laboratory Medicine
    • Trimester specific reference ranges for serum TSH and Free T4 among United Arab Emirates pregnant women [2018]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Thyroid hormone replacement in the preconception period and pregnancy [2019]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Carbimazole: increased risk of congenital malformations; strengthened advice on contraception [2019]
• United States
  • Advances in Therapy
    • Levothyroxine Treatment of Pregnant Women with Hypothyroidism: Retrospective Analysis of a US Claims Database [2020]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Subclinical hypothyroidism in the infertile female population: a guideline [2015]
  • American Thyroid Association
    • 2017 Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and the Postpartum [2017]
  • Archives of Iranian Medicine
    • Comparison of two guidelines on management of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer during pregnancy [2014]
  • BMJ
    • Thyroid hormone treatment among pregnant women with subclinical hypothyroidism: US national assessment [2017]
  • Endocrine Society
    • Management of Thyroid Dysfunction during Pregnancy and Postpartum: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline [2012]
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • The Need for Dynamic Clinical Guidelines: A Systematic Review of New Research Published After Release of the 2017 ATA Guidelines on Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and the Postpartum [2020]
  • Hormones
    • Comparison of the American Thyroid Association with the Endocrine Society practice guidelines for the screening and treatment of hypothyroidism during pregnancy [2014]
  • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Testing, Monitoring, and Treatment of Thyroid Dysfunction in Pregnancy [2021]
  • Journal of the Endocrine Society
    • Practice Variation in the Care of Subclinical Hypothyroidism During Pregnancy: A National Survey of Physicians in the United States [2019]
  • Journal of Thyroid Research
    • Management of Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody Euthyroid Women in Pregnancy: Comparison of the American Thyroid Association and the Endocrine Society Guidelines [2013]
    • Management of Hyperthyroidism in Pregnancy: Comparison of Recommendations of American Thyroid Association and Endocrine Society [2013]
  • Nutrients
    • History of U.S. Iodine Fortification and Supplementation [2012]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Neonatal thyroid disorders, congenital hypothyroidism

Trauma in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Trauma in Pregnancy
  • Trauma Victoria
    • Obstetric Trauma Guideline [2014]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Guidelines for the Management of a Pregnant Trauma Patient [2015]
• High and middle income countries
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal trauma due to motor vehicle crashes and pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• High-income countries
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Risk of Mortality in Association with Pregnancy in Women Following Motor Vehicle Crashes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
• Japan
  • Healthcare
    • Factors Influencing Pregnant Women’s Injuries and Fetal Loss Due to Motor Vehicle Collisions: A National Crash Data-Based Study [2021]
    • Comparison of Motor Vehicle Collision Injuries between Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women: A Nationwide Collision Data-Based Study [2021]
• Peru
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health
    • Trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder in a cohort of pregnant Peruvian women [2018]
• Taiwan
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Association of Traumatic Injury With Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Taiwan, 2004 to 2014 [2021]
• Turkey
  • Journal of the Turkish German Gynecological Association
    • Pregnancy and trauma: analysis of 139 cases [2012]
• United Kingdom
  • BJA Education
    • Trauma during pregnancy [2021]
• United States
  • Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
    • Pregnancy and Trauma [2010]
  • RadioGraphics
    • Imaging of Trauma in the Pregnant Patient [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology