Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Pregnancy

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Autoimmune diseases in pregnancy

• Europe
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
    • 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]
• 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]
• 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 States of America
  • 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

• Australia
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • 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]
  • NSW Health
    • Indications for Placental Histological Examination [2014]
• 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]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Velamentous Cord Insertion and Vasa Previa [2018]
• 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]
• 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
  • 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]
    • Blood Transfusions in Obstetrics [2015]
    • Antepartum Haemorrhage [2011]
  • Royal College of Pathologists
    • Tissue pathway for histopathological examination of the placenta [2019]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Placenta Accreta Spectrum [2018]
  • American College of Radiology
    • Second and Third Trimester Bleeding
  • 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 [2018]
• Brazil
  • 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, 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]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • 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]
• 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]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Maternal Collapse in Pregnancy and the Puerperium [2019]
    • Cardiac Disease and Pregnancy [2011]
• United States of America
  • American College of Cardiology
    • Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy [2018]
  • American Heart Association
    • 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]
  • Circulation
    • Cardiovascular Management in Pregnancy: Antithrombotic Agents and Antiplatelet Agents [2015]
  • 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 in pregnancy and newborn

• 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) [2018]
    • Haemorrhoids [2018]
    • Constipation [2018]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Obstetric Cholestasis [2011]
• United States of America
  • 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]
    • SMFM 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

Drugs 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
    • Medicines [2018]
    • Prescribing medicines in pregnancy database
• 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 Recommendations for European Pharmacovigilance concerning safety of medication use in pregnancy [2015]
• International
  • Seminars in Perinatology
    • Epidemiology of Medications Use in Pregnancy [2015]
• Italy
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
    • The Italian Network for Monitoring Medication Use During Pregnancy (MoM-Net): Experience and Perspectives [2021]
• Middle East
  • Oman Medical Journal
    • Herbal Medicines Use During Pregnancy: A Review from the Middle East [2015]
• 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]
• 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 of America
  • 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]
  • Pharmacy and Therapeutics
    • The New Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule [2016]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Prenatal acetaminophen use and outcomes in children [2017]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Drugs and breastfeeding

Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy

• Arab states of the Persian Gulf
  • Current Vascular Pharmacology
    • Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Adequacy of Prophylaxis in High Risk Pregnancy in the Arabian Gulf [2016]
• 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]
  • 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]
• International
  • 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]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Venous Thromboprophylaxis in Pregnancy [2013]
• Japan
  • 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]
• Sweden
  • BMJ Open
    • Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • 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, the Acute Management of [2015]
    • Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium, Reducing the Risk [2015]
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • 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]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy

Environmental exposures in pregnancy

• 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]
• 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
    • 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]
  • 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]
• International
  • Environment International
    • 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]
  • 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
    • WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review on Environmental Noise and Adverse Birth Outcomes [2017]
• Japan
  • Scientific Reports
    • Maternal Exposure to Housing Renovation During Pregnancy and Risk of Offspring with Congenital Malformation: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2019]
• 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]
• Republic of Korea
  • Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine
    • Reproductive toxic agents in work environments and related cases in Korea [2020]
• South Asia
  • Lancet Planetary Health
    • Estimation of pregnancy losses attributable to exposure to ambient fine particles in south Asia: an epidemiological case-control study [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]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Chemical Exposures During Pregnancy [2013]
    • Air Travel and Pregnancy [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 of America
  • 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]
  • 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
    • 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]
  • 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]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Exercise and physical activity in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Exercise in pregnancy [2014]
• 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]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • 2019 Canadian guideline for physical activity throughout pregnancy [2018]
• Denmark
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Compliance with national recommendations for exercise during early pregnancy in a Danish cohort [2015]
• International
  • American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
    • Guidelines for Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Comparisons From Around the World [2014]
• Iran
  • Acta Medica Iranica
    • Is ACOG guideline helpful for encouraging pregnant women to do exercise during pregnancy? [2014]
• 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
    • Influence of prenatal physical activity on the course of labour and delivery according to the new Polish standard for perinatal care [2013]
• South Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Exercise during pregnancy: knowledge and beliefs of medical practitioners in South Africa: a survey study [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Exercise in Pregnancy [2015]
  • Royal College of Physicians
    • Pregnancy: occupational aspects of management [2013]
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • 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]
• America
  • 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]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Alcohol [2018]
  • Department of Health Northern Territory Government
    • Addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the Northern Territory - 2018-2024 [2018]
  • 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]
  • Public Health Research and Practice
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Australia – the future is prevention [2015]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Substance Use in Breastfeeding Parents: A Review of Safety and Guidelines [2018]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Management of Infants born to Mothers who have used Opioids during Pregnancy [2018]
  • CMAJ
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a guideline for diagnosis across the lifespan [2016]
  • Institute of Health Economics
    • Life Expectancy of People with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome [2016]
    • Costs of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Canadian Criminal Justice System [2015]
  • 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Canada [2013]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • 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]
• Canada, United States of America
  • 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]
• 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
  • 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
  • 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]
• Japan
  • 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
• 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]
• 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]
  • 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 Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care
    • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) – conditions and interventions [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • 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]
  • NHS Health Scotland
    • Interventions to reduce alcohol consumption during pregnancy [2017]
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • 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
  • Current Developmental Disorders Reports
    • Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (ND-PAE): Review of Evidence and Guidelines for Assessment [2015]
  • Journal of Pediatric Health Care
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: What Pediatric Providers Need to Know [2017]
  • 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
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    • Addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Fetal growth restriction

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Fetal growth restriction and well-being [2018]
• 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
    • 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]
  • 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]
• 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]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Investigation and Management of the Small-for-Gestational-Age Fetus [2013]
• United States of America
  • 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]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy for Improving Neonatal Outcomes [2018]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Operational Guidelines - Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids in Preterm Labour  [2014]
  • New Indian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Role of Antenatal Corticosteroids in preterm deliveries [2016]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Antenatal corticosteroids for management of preterm birth: a multi-country analysis of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • 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]
  • JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association
    • 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
    • Implementation of the use of antenatal corticosteroids in the late preterm birth period in women at risk for preterm delivery [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Premature labor, preterm delivery
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Newborn respiratory tract diseases

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]
    • Improving national reporting on diabetes in pregnancy: technical report [2019]
    • Diabetes in pregnancy 2014–2015 [2019]
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus: A pragmatic approach to diagnosis and management [2018]
  • 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]
  • Current Diabetes Reports
    • Counterpoint: Establishing Consensus in the Diagnosis of GDM Following the HAPO Study [2014]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Hyperglycaemia [2018]
  • 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]
• 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]
• Australia, New Zealand, North America
  • 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]
• Belgium
  • PLoS ONE
    • Glucose Intolerance after a Recent History of Gestational Diabetes Based on the 2013 WHO Criteria [2016]
• 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]
  • 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]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Maternal Diabetes in Canada
  • 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]
• 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]
• Europe
  • Diabetes Care
    • Applying Current Screening Tools for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus to a European Population: Is It Time for Change? [2013]
  • 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]
• 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]
  • Association of Physicians of India
    • Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy [2017]
  • 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]
• 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, 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]
  • 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]
  • 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Morocco
  • Global Health Action
    • Diagnosis a posteriori? Assessing gestational diabetes screening and management in Morocco [2016]
• 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]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Screening and diagnosis of GDM in New Zealand [2018]
• Palau
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Assessment of Gestational Diabetes and Associated Risk Factors and Outcomes in the Pacific Island Nation of Palau [2017]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Standards of Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians in management of women with diabetes [2018]
• 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]
  • 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]
• Sri Lanka
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Comparing Different Diagnostic Guidelines for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Relation to Birthweight in Sri Lankan Women [2018]
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Management of Diabetes during Pregnancy [2014]
• 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
    • 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]
  • BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
    • Trends in diabetes in pregnancy in Sweden 1998–2012 [2016]
• Taiwan
  • 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]
  • Diabetes UK
    • Managing hyperglycaemia during antenatal steroid administration, labour and birth in pregnant women with diabetes [2018]
    • Management of glycaemic control in pregnant women with diabetes on obstetric wards and delivery units [2017]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • The identification and treatment of women with hyperglycaemia in pregnancy: an analysis of individual participant data, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and an economic evaluation [2016]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Clinical Implications of the NICE 2015 Criteria for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2018]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Diabetes in pregnancy: management of diabetes and its complications from preconception to the postnatal period [2020]
    • GDm-Health for people with gestational diabetes [2017]
    • Diabetes in pregnancy [2016]
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • American Diabetes Association
    • Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2018 [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Patterns of gestational diabetes diagnosis inside and outside of clinical guidelines [2017]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • National Diabetes Education Program
    • Promoting Health After Gestational Diabetes: A National Diabetes Education Program Call to Action [2012]
  • 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 Mellitus, Screening [2014]
  • Women's Preventive Services Initiative
    • Screening for Diabetes Mellitus After Pregnancy [2017]
• 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
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Hematologic diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Anaemia in pregnancy [2019]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Haemoglobin disorders [2018]
• Eastern 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]
  • 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
  • Association of Physicians of India
    • Anaemia in Pregnancy [2017]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Ethical issues in genetic counselling with special reference to haemoglobinopathies [2011]
• International
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • International values for haemoglobin distributions in healthy pregnant women [2020]
  • International Society of Blood Transfusion
    • Obstetric anaemia
  • 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]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute myeloid leukaemia in pregnancy [2015]
  • Public Health England
    • Sickle cell and thalassaemia handbook for antenatal laboratories [2017]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Management of Inherited Bleeding Disorders in Pregnancy [2017]
    • 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 of America, 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]
• United States of America
  • 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]
• {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 [2018]
• 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]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Anaemia and iron deficiency in pregnancy and postpartum [2016]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Singapore
  • BMC Public Health
    • Iron status and risk factors of iron deficiency among pregnant women in Singapore: a cross-sectional study [2019]
• 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 [2012]
• United States of America
  • 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]
    • Iron supplementation with or without folic acid to reduce the risk of postpartum anaemia
    • Intermittent iron and folic acid supplementation during pregnancy
    • Daily iron and folic acid supplementation during pregnancy
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy

Kidney diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Proteinuria [2018]
• China
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in hospitalized pregnant women in China [2019]
  • 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]
• 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]
• United States of America
  • 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]
• {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]
• America
  • 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 in Australia [2020]
  • NSW Health
    • Reporting of Maternal Deaths to the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission [2021]
  • 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
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Estimation of maternal mortality rates in Brazil, 2008-2011 [2014]
  • Jornal de Pediatria
    • Temporal and spatial evolution of maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Brazil, 1997–2012 [2016]
• Burundi
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality in rural Africa: an experience from Burundi [2013]
• Canada
  • Statistics Canada
    • Number of maternal deaths and maternal mortality rates for selected causes
• China
  • BioMed Research International
    • Provincial Maternal Mortality Surveillance Systems in China [2014]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Reducing maternal mortality in China in the era of the two-child policy [2020]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Knowledge gaps in scientific literature on maternal mortality: a systematic review [2006]
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Maternal Mortality
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Thinking beyond maternal mortality: Re-conceptualizing and measuring maternal morbidity [2018]
  • 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]
  • 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
    • Progress for Children: A Report Card on Maternal Mortality (No. 7) [2008]
    • Maternal mortality
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Medicines for Maternal Health [2012]
  • 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]
• Japan
  • BMJ Open
    • Current status of pregnancy-related maternal mortality in Japan: a report from the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee in Japan [2016]
• 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 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 ONE
    • Quality of medicines for life-threatening pregnancy complications in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2020]
    • 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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-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]
• 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]
• 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Establishing a National Maternal Morbidity Outcome Indicator in England: A Population-Based Study Using Routine Hospital Data [2016]
• United States of America
  • AJP Reports
    • Implementing Obstetric Early Warning Systems [2018]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity: Screening and Review [2016]
  • 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
    • 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
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Standardized Severe Maternal Morbidity Review [2014]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • 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]
    • Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2013: Estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, The World Bank and the United Nations Population Division [2014]
    • 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
• 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
    • National Core Maternity Indicators
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Providing pregnancy care services [2018]
  • NSW Health
    • NSW Maternity and Neonatal Service Capability Framework [2016]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Factors associated with the utilization of institutional delivery services in Bangladesh [2017]
• 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]
  • 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]
• Canada
  • Alberta Health Services
    • Obstetrical Triage Acuity Scale (OTAS) [2017]
    • Criteria to Support Appropriate Level of Obstetrical Care [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
    • Attendance at and Resources for Delivery of Optimal Maternity Care [2019]
    • Rural Maternity Care [2017]
    • Returning Birth to Aboriginal, Rural, and Remote Communities [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]
• Developing countries
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • A systematic review of inequalities in the use of maternal health care in developing countries: examining the scale of the problem and the importance of context [2007]
  • 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]
• Eastern Africa
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Pooled prevalence and determinants of skilled birth attendant delivery in East Africa countries: a multilevel analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys [2020]
  • 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]
    • Disparities in the use of antenatal care service in Ethiopia over a period of fifteen years [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Birth in a Health Facility –Inequalities among the Ethiopian Women: Results from Repeated National Surveys [2014]
• 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
  • 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]
• 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]
  • 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]
• 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]
  • Implementation Science
    • Expanding the evidence base for global recommendations on health systems: strengths and challenges of the OptimizeMNH guidance process [2016]
  • International Confederation of Midwives
    • The involvement of midwives associations in policy and planning about the midwifery workforce: A global survey [2015]
  • 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]
• Ireland
  • Department of Health Ireland
    • The Irish Maternity Early Warning System (IMEWS): National Clinical Guideline No. 4 [2014]
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    • 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]
  • 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]
• 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
  • PLoS ONE
    • Basic emergency obstetric and newborn care service availability and readiness in Nepal: Analysis of the 2015 Nepal Health Facility Survey [2021]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Provider perspectives on the enabling environment required for skilled birth attendance: a qualitative study in western Nepal [2014]
• 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
    • Primary Maternity Services Notice 2021 [2021]
    • New Zealand Maternity Clinical Indicators 2018 [2020]
    • HISO 10050.2:2020 Maternity Care Summary Standard [2020]
    • 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
  • 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]
• South Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Growing inequities in maternal health in South Africa: a comparison of serial national household surveys [2016]
• South Asia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Institutional delivery in public and private sectors in South Asia: a comparative analysis of prospective data from four demographic surveillance sites [2016]
  • 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]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Drivers and deterrents of facility delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2013]
• 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
    • Enhancing Maternal and Perinatal Health in Under-Served Remote Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Tanzanian Model [2016]
• Timor-Leste
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • The tyranny of distance: maternity waiting homes and access to birthing facilities in rural Timor-Leste [2012]
• 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
    • Determinants of maternal health services utilization in Uganda [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • 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 2018 [2019]
  • 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
    • 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]
  • NHS Improvement
    • Maternity safety champions
    • Maternal and neonatal health safety collaborative
  • PLoS ONE
    • External validity of prevalence estimates from the national maternity surveys in England: The impact of response rate [2020]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Standards for Maternity Care [2016]
    • Reconfiguration of women's services in the UK [2013]
    • Improving Patient Safety: Risk Management for Maternity and Gynaecology [2009]
    • Maternity Dashboard Clinical Performance and Governance Score Card [2008]
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • 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]
    • 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]
    • 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]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Multiple pregnancy

• Australia
  • NSW Health
    • Management of Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy [2020]
• 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]
• 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
  • 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]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • A worldwide survey of laser surgery for twin–twin transfusion syndrome [2014]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Management of Multiple Pregnancy [2012]
• 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
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Twin and triplet pregnancy [2019]
    • Multiple pregnancy: twin and triplet pregnancies [2019]
    • 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]
  • NHS England
    • Management of Twin to Twin Syndrome by fetoscopic laser ablation [2015]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy, Management [2016]
• United States of America
  • American College of Radiology
    • Multiple Gestations
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Multiple Births
  • 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]
    • Twin-twin transfusion syndrome [2013]
• {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 [2018]
    • Carpal tunnel syndrome [2018]
• Europe
  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
    • The EULAR points to consider for use of antirheumatic drugs before pregnancy, and during pregnancy and lactation [2016]
• 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]
• 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]
• {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 [2018]
• 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 [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]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Hyperemesis and Nausea/Vomiting in Pregnancy [2015]
• 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]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Treatments for hyperemesis gravidarum and nausea and vomiting in pregnancy: a systematic review and economic assessment [2016]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • 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 of America
  • 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]
  • 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]
• Canada
  • 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]
• 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]
• Europe
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • Prevention of Neural Tube Defects in Europe: A Public Health Failure [2021]
• France
  • Nutrients
    • 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]
• India
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • Indian Perspective on Clinical Aspects, Usage, and Guidelines of Folic Acid [2014]
• International
  • Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • Folic acid supplementation for pregnant women and those planning pregnancy: 2015 update [2015]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Folate supplementation during the preconception period, pregnancy and puerperium. Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Guidelines [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • 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]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Open prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus | Guidance | NICE [2020]
    • Fetoscopic prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus [2020]
  • NHS England
    • Prenatal surgery for open spina bifida [2018]
  • Public Health England
    • Update on folic acid [2017]
    • Adding folic acid to flour
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Folic Acid Supplementation [2017]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Folic Acid for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects [2012]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Maternal–Fetal Surgery for Myelomeningocele [2017]
  • 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
  • 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]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • 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]
    • Periconceptional folic acid supplementation to prevent neural tube defects
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

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 [2018]
    • Assessing psychosocial factors that affect mental health [2018]
  • 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]
  • 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
• 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]
• 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]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Pharmacology
    • Psychopharmacoteratophobia: Excessive fear of malformation associated with prescribing psychotropic drugs during pregnancy: An Indian perspective [2015]
• International
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health
    • An international position paper on mother-infant (perinatal) mental health, with guidelines for clinical practice [2016]
  • 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]
• 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
    • Healthy Beginnings: Developing perinatal and infant mental health services in New Zealand [2012]
• Norway
  • PLoS ONE
    • 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 Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska [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]
• 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]
• 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]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • 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 General Practitioners
    • Perinatal Mental Health
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Valproate Use In Women and Girls Of Childbearing Years [2019]
    • Epilepsy in Pregnancy [2016]
    • Management of Women with Mental Health Issues during Pregnancy and the Postnatal Period [2011]
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists
    • Perinatal mental health services: Recommendations for the provision of services for childbearing women [2015]
• United States of America
  • 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]
• {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 [2018]
  • 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]
• Brazil
  • Clinics
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of gestational weight gain recommendations and related outcomes in Brazil [2015]
• 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]
  • 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
  • Journal of Epidemiology
    • Gestational weight gain charts by gestational age and body mass index for Chinese women: A population-based follow-up study [2019]
  • 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]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Obesity in pregnancy [2017]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
    • No global consensus: a cross-sectional survey of maternal weight policies [2014]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Estimated global overweight and obesity burden in pregnant women based on panel data model [2018]
• 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
    • 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
    • Investigation of optimal weight gain during pregnancy for Japanese Women [2017]
• 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 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]
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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 Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • 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]
  • 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 of America
  • 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: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US 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]
  • National Academies Press
    • Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the 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]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Healthy Weight and Weight Gain In Pregnancy: Behavioral Counseling Interventions [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Obstetrics, perinatology

• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • Maternal Health
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Mothers & babies
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines
  • SA Health
    • Perinatal Practice 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
    • 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]
• 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]
  • 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]
• Philippines
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • Guidelines and training for maternal and newborn care post-Haiyan [2015]
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • 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
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Pregnancy
  • Public Health England
    • Child and maternal health statistics
• United States of America
  • 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
    • Prenatal care
    • Pregnancy tests
    • Pregnancy in diabetics
    • 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
    • Maternity services
    • Maternal mortality and morbidity
    • Maternal and neonatal infections
    • Labor, delivery, postpartum
    • Kidney diseases in pregnancy
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Gestational diabetes
    • 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
    • Drugs in pregnancy
    • Digestive system diseases in pregnancy
    • Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy
    • Breast cancer and pregnancy
    • Bleeding in pregnancy, placenta diseases
    • Autoimmune diseases in pregnancy
    • 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]
• 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]
• India
  • Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
    • Good Clinical Practice Recommendations on Preconception Care [2016]
• International
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Outcomes of an International Workshop on Preconception Expanded Carrier Screening: Some Considerations for Governments [2017]
• Malaysia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Public Health England
    • Preconception care: making the case
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
    • Preconception Care (Position Paper) [2016]
  • 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
• {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]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Risk of pre-eclampsia [2018]
    • Blood pressure [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
• 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]
• Canada
  • Hypertension Canada
    • Hypertension Canada’s 2018 Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy [2018]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Hypertension in Pregnancy [2006]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Maternal Hypertension in Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management of the Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Executive Summary [2014]
• 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, Sweden
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Preeclampsia Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Pregnancy Outcomes in Sweden and China [2021]
• Colombia
  • Colombia Médica
    • Reduction of maternal mortality due to preeclampsia in Colombia-an interrupted time-series analysis [2014]
• 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
    • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: a systemic review and meta-analysis [2018]
• 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
    • 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
    • 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]
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
    • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease: Current National and International Guidelines and the Need for Future Research [2019]
  • 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 [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of International Clinical Practice Guidelines [2014]
  • 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Management of Hypertensive Disease During Pregnancy [2014]
    • Management of Eclampsia [2014]
• 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]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Validation and development of models using clinical, biochemical and ultrasound markers for predicting pre-eclampsia: an individual participant data meta-analysis [2020]
    • Spot protein-creatinine ratio and spot albumin-creatinine ratio in the assessment of pre-eclampsia: a diagnostic accuracy study with decision-analytic model-based economic evaluation and acceptability analysis [2017]
    • Placental growth factor (alone or in combination with soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1) as an aid to the assessment of women with suspected pre-eclampsia: systematic review and economic analysis [2016]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • 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 of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Preeclampsia [2017]
    • Low-Dose Aspirin for the Prevention of Morbidity and Mortality From Preeclampsia [2014]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Emergent Therapy for Acute-Onset, Severe Hypertension During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2019]
    • Low-Dose Aspirin Use During Pregnancy [2018]
  • Open Nursing Journal
    • Management of Chronic and Gestational Hypertension of Pregnancy: A Guide for Primary Care Nurse Practitioners [2018]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • 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
    • Preeclampsia: Screening [2017]
    • Low-Dose Aspirin Use for the Prevention of Morbidity and Mortality From Preeclampsia: Preventive Medication [2014]
• 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]
    • Calcium supplementation during pregnancy to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Pregnancy in diabetics

• Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Impact of pre-pregnancy diabetes mellitus on congenital anomalies, Canada, 2002–2012 [2015]
• China
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Preconception diabetes mellitus and adverse pregnancy outcomes in over 6.4 million women: A population-based cohort study in China [2019]
• Europe
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prescribing of Antidiabetic Medicines before, during and after Pregnancy: A Study in Seven European Regions [2016]
• 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]
• Poland
  • Polish Archives of Internal Medicine
    • Medical care of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes: current guidelines and clinical practice [2013]
• 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]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Pre-conception care for women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes: A mixed methods study exploring uptake of pre-conception care [2017]
  • NHS Digital
    • National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit Report 2018 [2019]
• United States of America
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Use of Antidiabetic drugs during pregnancy among U.S. women with Livebirth deliveries in the Mini-Sentinel system [2019]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • SMFM Special Statement: Updated checklist for antepartum care of pregestational diabetes mellitus [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 of America
  • American Journal of Clinical Pathology
    • Should the Qualitative Serum Pregnancy Test Be Considered Obsolete? [2012]
  • 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 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
    • Pregnancy Care Guidelines and related documents [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Non-urgent referral for antenatal care
• Bangladesh
  • PLoS ONE
    • 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]
• 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]
    • Maternity Care Pathway [2010]
• 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
    • Universal or Targeted Antenatal Care for Immigrant Women? Mapping and Qualitative Analysis of Practices in Denmark [2019]
• Eastern 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]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Timing and adequate attendance of antenatal care visits among women in Ethiopia [2017]
• 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]
• Ghana
  • PLoS ONE
    • Client Factors Affect Provider Adherence to Clinical Guidelines during First Antenatal Care [2016]
• 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
  • 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]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Antenatal care
• 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]
  • 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
    • Timing and number of antenatal care contacts in low and middle-income countries: Analysis in the Countdown to 2030 priority countries [2020]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
  • 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]
• 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]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of completing recommended antenatal care utilization in sub-Saharan from 2006 to 2018: evidence from 36 countries using Demographic and Health Surveys [2021]
• 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]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • Do antenatal care visits always contribute to facility-based delivery in Tanzania? A study of repeated cross-sectional data [2015]
• 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 for uncomplicated pregnancies [2019]
    • Antenatal care [2016]
    • Pregnancy and complex social factors: A model for service provision for pregnant women with complex social factors [2010]
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium
    • Routine Prenatal and Postnatal Care [2018]
• 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]
• Zambia
  • Ministry of Health Zambia
    • ANC guidelines for a positive pregnancy experience [2019]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Prenatal nutrition, dietary supplements in pregnancy

• Afghanistan
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • 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]
• 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]
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Vitamin D status [2018]
    • Nutrition and physical activity [2018]
  • 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 [2017]
  • 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]
• Ethiopia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Dietary diversity among pregnant women and associated factors in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis [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 of America
  • 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]
• 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]
• International
  • 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]
  • Nature Reviews Endocrinology
    • Micronutrient deficiencies in pregnancy worldwide: health effects and prevention [2016]
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • Maternal Nutrition Programming in the context of the 2016 WHO Antenatal Care Guidelines [2018]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition: A survival and development priority [2009]
• 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]
• 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]
• South Asia
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Prevalence of Vitamin A Deficiency in South Asia: Causes, Outcomes, and Possible Remedies [2013]
• 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]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Effects of antenatal diet and physical activity on maternal and fetal outcomes: individual patient data meta-analysis and health economic evaluation [2017]
    • Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy: a systematic review [2014]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Nutrition: improving maternal and child nutrition [2015]
    • Maternal and child nutrition [2014]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Vitamin D in Pregnancy [2014]
  • Scottish Government
    • Scottish maternal and infant nutrition survey 2017 [2018]
• United States of America
  • 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
    • 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]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • 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]
    • Zinc supplementation during pregnancy
    • Vitamin E and C supplementation during pregnancy
    • Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy
    • Vitamin B6 supplementation during pregnancy
    • Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy
    • Nutrition counselling during pregnancy
    • Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy
    • Multiple micronutrient powders for point-of-use fortification of foods consumed by pregnant women
    • Marine oil supplementation during pregnancy
    • High-protein supplementation during pregnancy
    • Balanced energy and protein supplementation during pregnancy
    • Assessment for nutrition-related disorders in women during pregnancy
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Prolonged pregnancy

• Australia
  • Department of Health Australia
    • Prolonged pregnancy [2018]
  • NSW Health
    • Management of pregnancy beyond 41 weeks gestation [2014]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Guidelines for the Management of Pregnancy at 41+0 to 42+0 Weeks [2017]
• 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]
• 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 of America
  • 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
• International
  • Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute
    • Statement on pregnancy in pulmonary hypertension from the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute [2015]
• 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 of America
  • 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
    • Anti-D prophylaxis
  • NSW Health
    • Rh (D) Immunoglobulin (Anti D) [2015]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Approach to red blood cell antibody testing during pregnancy [2020]
  • Health Quality Ontario
    • 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]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Appropriate provision of anti-D prophylaxis to RhD negative pregnant women: a scoping review [2014]
  • Pediatric Research
    • Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and Rhesus disease of the newborn: incidence and impairment estimates for 2010 at regional and global levels [2013]
• 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]
• 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]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • High-throughput non-invasive prenatal testing for fetal rhesus D status in RhD-negative women not known to be sensitised to the RhD antigen: a systematic review and economic evaluation [2018]
  • 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]
• United States of America
  • 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
    • Management of pigmented skin lesions during pregnancy [2019]
• 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]
• 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]
• United Kingdom
  • Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
    • Skin eruptions specific to pregnancy: an overview [2013]
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • 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 [2018]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • 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]
  • 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
  • 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, North America
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Changes in parental smoking during pregnancy and risks of adverse birth outcomes and childhood overweight in Europe and North America: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 229,000 singleton births [2020]
• Finland
  • BMJ Open
    • Changes in objectively measured smoking in pregnancy by time and legislative changes in Finland: a retrospective cohort study [2016]
• France
  • 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
  • BMJ Open
    • Systematic critical review of previous economic evaluations of smoking cessation during pregnancy [2015]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • National, regional, and global prevalence of smoking during pregnancy in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • 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]
• 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]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Barriers to and facilitators of smoking cessation in pregnancy and following childbirth: literature review and qualitative study [2017]
  • 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
    • 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]
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • 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
  • Preventive Medicine
    • 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]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Interventions for Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Persons [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Stillbirth, neonatal mortality

• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Australia [2020]
    • Perinatal deaths in Australia 2013–2014 [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Stillbirth care
• 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]
• 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • 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]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Supporting and communicating with families experiencing a perinatal loss [2018]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Perinatal Mortality [2017]
  • 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]
  • Statistics Canada
    • Perinatal mortality (late fetal deaths and early neonatal deaths)
    • Live births and fetal deaths (stillbirths), by type of birth (single or multiple)
    • Live births and fetal deaths (stillbirths), by place of birth (hospital or non-hospital)
    • Leading causes of death, infants
    • Infant deaths and mortality rates, by sex
    • Infant deaths and mortality rates, by age group
    • Fetal deaths (20 weeks or more of gestation) and late fetal deaths (28 weeks or more of gestation)
• Canada, France
  • CMAJ Open
    • A population-based comparison of preterm neonatal deaths (22–34 gestational weeks) in France and Ontario: a cohort study [2019]
• 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]
• 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]
• Eastern 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
  • 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]
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Perinatal Mortality Trends in Ethiopia [2014]
  • 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]
• Europe
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Socioeconomic inequalities in stillbirth rates in Europe: measuring the gap using routine data from the Euro-Peristat Project [2016]
• 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
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of stillbirths in Ghana: does quality of antenatal care matter? [2016]
• 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]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • State of newborn health in India [2016]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Operational Guidelines for establishing Sentinel Stillbirth Surveillance System [2016]
• 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]
  • Child Mortality Estimates
    • Child Mortality Estimates
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Setting research priorities to improve global newborn health and prevent stillbirths by 2025 [2015]
  • Lancet
    • 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
    • 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]
    • Levels and Trends in Child Mortality - Report 2018 [2018]
    • Neonatal mortality
  • Vaccine
    • Neonatal death: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2016]
• 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]
• Japan
  • Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
    • Recommendations for Preventing Stillbirth: A Regional Population-Based Study in Japan during 2007-2011 [2015]
• 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]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Stillbirth rates in low-middle income countries 2010 - 2013: a population-based, multi-country study from the Global Network [2015]
• 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]
• Nepal
  • 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
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
    • Dutch guideline for clinical foetal-neonatal and paediatric post-mortem radiology, including a review of literature [2018]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Fetal and Infant Deaths web tool
• Nigeria
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Trends in neonatal mortality in Nigeria and effects of bio-demographic and maternal characteristics [2015]
• 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]
    • Decreasing Trends of Neonatal and Infant Mortality Rates in Korea: Compared with Japan, USA, and OECD Nations [2011]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 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]
  • 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]
• 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]
• 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]
  • NHS England
    • Saving Babies’ Lives Version Two: A care bundle for reducing perinatal mortality [2019]
  • Public Health England
    • Pregnancy and early life: reducing stillbirth and infant death
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Late Intrauterine Fetal Death and Stillbirth [2010]
  • Royal College of Pathologists
    • Guidelines on autopsy practice: Third trimester antepartum and intrapartum stillbirth [2017]
• 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 of America
  • 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
    • Every newborn progress report 2019 [2020]
    • Reaching the every newborn national 2020 milestones [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]
    • 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]
    • The neglected tragedy of stillbirths
    • 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 [2018]
  • NSW Health
    • Guidelines for the Management of Substance Use During Pregnancy Birth and the Postnatal Period [2014]
    • Neonatal abstinence syndrome guidelines [2013]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Substance misuse and dependence in pregnancy [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Perinatal substance use: neonatal
    • Perinatal substance use: maternal
• Canada
  • 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 [2018]
  • 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
    • Treating of Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy: Guideline Supplement [2018]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Substance Use in Pregnancy [2017]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Methadone Prescribing and Administration in Pregnancy [2013]
• 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]
• United Kingdom
  • NHS Health Scotland
    • Interventions to reduce illicit drug use during pregnancy [2017]
  • Wales Neonatal Network
    • Guideline on the Management of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome [2017]
• United States of America, 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]
• United States of America
  • Academy of BreastFeeding Medicine
    • Guidelines for Breastfeeding and Substance Use or Substance Use Disorder, Revised 2015 [2015]
  • 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]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • 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]
  • 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]
  • Medicaid
    • Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Critical Role for Medicaid in the Care of Infants [2018]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • 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]
  • 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
    • 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]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Guidelines for identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy [2014]
    • Restricting caffeine intake during pregnancy
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Thyroid diseases in pregnancy

• 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
  • 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 [2018]
• Brazil
  • Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Management of gestational hypothyroidism: results of a Brazilian survey [2015]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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
  • 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
  • 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]
• 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]
• Republic of Korea
  • Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
    • Reference intervals of thyroid hormones during pregnancy in Korea, an iodine-replete area [2018]
• United Kingdom
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Carbimazole: increased risk of congenital malformations; strengthened advice on contraception [2019]
• United Arab Emirates
  • Practical Laboratory Medicine
    • Trimester specific reference ranges for serum TSH and Free T4 among United Arab Emirates pregnant women [2018]
• United States of America
  • 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 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]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Iodine supplementation in pregnant and lactating women
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Neonatal thyroid disorders

Trauma in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Trauma in Pregnancy
  • SA Health
    • Electrical and lightning injuries 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]
• 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 States of America
  • 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