Obstetrics, gynecology, andrology, sexual and reproductive health

Pregnancy

 

Antenatal care

• Afghanistan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Associations of antenatal care visit with utilization of institutional delivery care services in Afghanistan: intersections of education, wealth, and household decision-making autonomy [2022]
    • Afghan women's empowerment and antenatal care utilization: a population-based cross-sectional study [2022]
• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Antenatal care in Australian general practice [2016]
    • Antenatal care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women [2014]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Pregnancy Apps for Self-Monitoring: Scoping Review of the Most Popular Global Apps Available in Australia [2023]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Routine antenatal assessment in the absence of pregnancy complications [2022]
• Bangladesh
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Does dropout from school matter in taking antenatal care visits among women in Bangladesh? An application of marginalized poisson-poisson mixture model [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Levels and determinants of quality antenatal care in Bangladesh: Evidence from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey [2023]
    • Determinants of frequency and contents of antenatal care visits in Bangladesh: Assessing the extent of compliance with the WHO recommendations [2019]
    • Maternal Pregnancy Intention and Professional Antenatal Care Utilization in Bangladesh: A Nationwide Population-Based Survey [2016]
• Belgium, Netherlands
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Antenatal care use in urban areas in two European countries: Predisposing, enabling and pregnancy-related determinants in Belgium and the Netherlands [2016]
• Benin
  • Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association
    • Women’s enlightenment and early antenatal care initiation are determining factors for the use of eight or more antenatal visits in Benin: further analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey [2020]
• Brazil
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Prenatal care of Brazilian women: racial inequalities and their implications for care [2022]
    • Assessment of the completeness of filling the pregnant woman's card from the Ministry of Health: a national, cross-sectional study [2022]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Low-Risk Antenatal Care Enhanced by Telemedicine: A Practical Guideline Model [2022]
  • Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
    • Infant mortality and prenatal care: contributions of the clinic in the light of Canguilhem and Foucault [2012]
• Burundi
  • PLoS ONE
    • Spatial distribution and predictive factors of antenatal care in Burundi: A spatial and multilevel baseline analysis for the third burundian demographic and health survey [2023]
• Canada
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Population and Public Health Prenatal Care Pathway [2014]
• China
  • BMC Public Health
    • Current status of antenatal care of pregnant women—8 provinces in China, 2018 [2021]
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
    • Present Situation and the Future Development of Web-Based Prenatal Education in China: Cross-sectional Web-Based Survey [2022]
• Colombia
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Individual and local level factors and antenatal care use in Colombia: a multilevel analysis [2014]
• Denmark
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Implementation, Mechanisms and Context of the MAMAACT Intervention to Reduce Ethnic and Social Disparity in Stillbirth and Infant Health [2021]
    • Universal or Targeted Antenatal Care for Immigrant Women? Mapping and Qualitative Analysis of Practices in Denmark [2019]
• Developed countries
  • International Journal of Medical Informatics
    • Virtual prenatal care: A systematic review of pregnant women's and healthcare professionals' experiences, needs, and preferences for quality care [2023]
• East Africa
  • PLOS Global Public Health
    • Trends and determinants of late antenatal care initiation in three East African countries, 2007-2016: A population based cross-sectional analysis [2022]
  • Scientific Reports
    • The effects of ANC follow up on essential newborn care practices in east Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• Egypt
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Temporal and regional variations in use, equity and quality of antenatal care in Egypt: a repeat cross-sectional analysis using Demographic and Health Surveys [2019]
• Ethiopia
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Trends and determinants of an acceptable antenatal care coverage in Ethiopia, evidence from 2005-2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey; Multivariate decomposition analysis [2020]
    • Impact of antenatal care on neonatal mortality among neonates in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • The effect of antenatal care on use of institutional delivery service and postnatal care in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Time to first antenatal care booking and its determinants among pregnant women in Ethiopia: survival analysis of recent evidence from EDHS 2019 [2022]
    • Determinants of recommended antenatal care visits among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a generalized linear mixed-effects modeling [2022]
    • The impact of antenatal care on under-five mortality in Ethiopia: a difference-in-differences analysis [2021]
    • Prevalence and factors associated with antenatal care utilization in Ethiopia: an evidence from demographic health survey 2016 [2020]
    • Male partner attendance at antenatal care and adherence to antenatal care guidelines: secondary analysis of 2011 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data [2018]
    • Quality of antenatal care services and completion of four or more antenatal care visits in Ethiopia: a finding based on a demographic and health survey [2017]
    • Disparities in the use of antenatal care service in Ethiopia over a period of fifteen years [2013]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Antenatal care strengthening for improved quality of care in Jimma, Ethiopia: an effectiveness study [2015]
  • BMJ Open
    • Multilevel analysis of quality of antenatal care and associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study [2022]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Factors associated with inadequate prenatal care service utilization in Ethiopia according to the WHO recommended standard guidelines [2022]
  • Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology
    • Antenatal Care Dropout and Associated Factors in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Multilevel Modelling of the Individual and Regional Level Variability in Predictors of Incomplete Antenatal Care Visit among Women of Reproductive Age in Ethiopia: Classical and Bayesian Approaches [2022]
    • Trends and Determinants of Antenatal Care Service Use in Ethiopia between 2000 and 2016 [2019]
  • Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
    • Understanding the association of mass media with the timing of antenatal care in Ethiopia: an impression from the 2016 Ethiopia demographic and health survey [2023]
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology International
    • Determinants of Antenatal Care Service Satisfaction among Women in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Magnitude of optimal access to ANC and its predictors in Ethiopia: Multilevel mixed effect analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional survey [2023]
    • Determinants of early initiation of first antenatal care visit in Ethiopia based on the 2019 Ethiopia mini-demographic and health survey: A multilevel analysis [2023]
    • Assessing the association between an early and recommended number of focused antenatal care visits and the number of prenatal care content received before delivery in Ethiopia [2023]
    • The effect of antenatal care on perinatal outcomes in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
    • Survival time to first antenatal care visit and its predictors among women in Ethiopia [2021]
    • Determinants of change in timely first antenatal booking among pregnant women in Ethiopia: A decomposition analysis [2021]
    • Prevalence and associated factors of delayed first antenatal care booking among reproductive age women in Ethiopia; a multilevel analysis of EDHS 2016 data [2020]
    • Factors affecting utilization of antenatal care in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
    • Timing and adequate attendance of antenatal care visits among women in Ethiopia [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Trend change in delayed first antenatal care visit among reproductive-aged women in Ethiopia: multivariate decomposition analysis [2022]
    • The effect of national antenatal care guidelines and provider training on obstetric danger sign counselling: a propensity score matching analysis of the 2014 Ethiopia service provision assessment plus survey [2022]
    • Timing of first antenatal care visits and number of items of antenatal care contents received and associated factors in Ethiopia: multilevel mixed effects analysis [2021]
  • Systematic Reviews
    • Association between pregnancy intention and late initiation of antenatal care among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
    • Collaboration with parents in ante- and perinatal care
• FCAS
  • Conflict and Health
    • Factors impacting antenatal care utilization: a systematic review of 37 fragile and conflict-affected situations [2022]
• Gambia
  • BMC Public Health
    • The magnitude and determinants of delayed initiation of antenatal care among pregnant women in Gambia; evidence from Gambia demographic and health survey data [2023]
• Georgia
  • PLoS ONE
    • The impact of antenatal care utilization on admissions to neonatal intensive care units and perinatal mortality in Georgia [2020]
• Ghana
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Non-adherence to WHO's recommended 8-contact model: geospatial analysis of the 2017 Maternal Health Survey [2023]
    • Trends in antenatal care visits and associated factors in Ghana from 2006 to 2018 [2022]
    • Inequalities in antenatal care in Ghana, 1998-2014 [2022]
    • Determinants of stillbirths in Ghana: does quality of antenatal care matter? [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Correlates of late initiation and underutilisation of the recommended eight or more antenatal care visits among women of reproductive age: insights from the 2019 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey [2022]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Prevalence and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Eight or More Antenatal Care Contacts in Ghana: Findings from 2019 Population-Based Data [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Client Factors Affect Provider Adherence to Clinical Guidelines during First Antenatal Care [2016]
• High-income countries
  • Health & Social Care in the Community
    • Facilitators and barriers to seeking and engaging with antenatal care in high-income countries: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research [2022]
  • 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]
  • Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Antenatal care policy in high-income countries with a universal health system: A scoping review [2022]
• India
  • BMC Public Health
    • Factors associated with inadequate receipt of components and non-use of antenatal care services in India: a regional analysis [2023]
  • Health Services Research
    • Long-term trend in socioeconomic inequalities and geographic variation in the utilization of antenatal care service in India between 1998 and 2015 [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Factors associated with underutilization of antenatal care in India: Results from 2019-2021 National Family Health Survey [2023]
    • 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]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Inequality in time to first antenatal care visits and its predictors among pregnant women in India: an evidence from national family health survey [2023]
• 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]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Implementation of Antenatal Lifestyle Interventions Into Routine Care: Secondary Analysis of a Systematic Review [2022]
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
    • Building a Digital Tool for the Adoption of the World Health Organization’s Antenatal Care Recommendations: Methodological Intersection of Evidence, Clinical Logic, and Digital Technology [2020]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Early antenatal care visit: a systematic analysis of regional and global levels and trends of coverage from 1990 to 2013 [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • A systematic review of providers’ experiences of facilitating group antenatal care [2021]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Antenatal care
• Japan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Regional socio-environmental characteristics associated with inadequate prenatal care during pregnancy: an ecological study of 47 prefectures in Japan [2021]
• Kenya
  • Reproductive Health
    • Pregnancy wantedness, frequency and timing of antenatal care visit among women of childbearing age in Kenya [2016]
• Lebanon
  • Conflict and Health
    • An assessment of antenatal care among Syrian refugees in Lebanon [2015]
• Liberia
  • Ministry of Health Liberia
    • Antenatal Care Protocol [2015]
  • PLOS Global Public Health
    • Effects of socioeconomic factors and booking time on the WHO recommended eight antenatal care contacts in Liberia [2022]
• 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]
  • BMJ Open
    • Effects of women's economic empowerment interventions on antenatal care outcomes: a systematic review [2023]
    • Impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on antenatal care service uptake in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2022]
  • F1000Research
    • Incentives for pregnant mothers during antenatal care for better maternal and neonatal health outcomes in low and middle income countries: A systematic review protocol [2022]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Pooled prevalence and determinants of antenatal care visits in countries with high maternal mortality: A multi-country analysis [2023]
  • Global Pediatric Health
    • Prevalence of Eight or More Antenatal Care Contacts: Findings From Multi-Country Nationally Representative Data [2021]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Inequalities in antenatal care coverage and quality: an analysis from 63 low and middle-income countries using the ANCq content-qualified coverage indicator [2021]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • A new content-qualified antenatal care coverage indicator: Development and validation of a score using national health surveys in low- and middle-income countries [2021]
    • Timing and number of antenatal care contacts in low and middle-income countries: Analysis in the Countdown to 2030 priority countries [2020]
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
    • Effects of mHealth Interventions on Improving Antenatal Care Visits and Skilled Delivery Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]
  • Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
    • Building a Global Evidence Base to Guide Policy and Implementation for Group Antenatal Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Key Principles and Research Framework Recommendations from the Global Group Antenatal Care Collaborative [2020]
  • Primary Health Care Research & Development
    • Health system-related barriers to prenatal care management in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the qualitative literature [2023]
  • Seminars in Perinatology
    • Trends of antenatal care during pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries: Findings from the global network maternal and newborn health registry [2019]
• Malaysia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Antenatal Care Utilisation and Content between Low-Risk and High-Risk Pregnant Women [2016]
    • Assessing the Extent of Adherence to the Recommended Antenatal Care Content in Malaysia: Room for Improvement [2015]
• Mauritania
  • BMC Public Health
    • Sub-regional disparities in the use of antenatal care service in Mauritania: findings from nationally representative demographic and health surveys (2011–2015) [2021]
• Mesoamerica
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Coverage and timing of antenatal care among poor women in 6 Mesoamerican countries [2016]
• Mozambique
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Challenges and opportunities for implementing evidence-based antenatal care in Mozambique: a qualitative study [2015]
• Myanmar
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Country compliance with WHO-recommended antenatal care guidelines: equity analysis of the 2015–2016 Demography and Health Survey in Myanmar [2020]
  • Ministry of Health and Sports
    • National Guidelines for Antenatal Care for Service Providers [2018]
• Nepal
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Timing of First Antenatal Care (ANC) and Inequalities in Early Initiation of ANC in Nepal [2017]
• New Zealand
  • New Zealand College of Midwives
    • Assessment and promotion of fetal wellbeing during pregnancy [2021]
• Nigeria
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Sub-national analysis and determinants of numbers of antenatal care contacts in Nigeria: assessing the compliance with the WHO recommended standard guidelines [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Timing of first antenatal care contact, its associated factors and state-level analysis in Nigeria: a cross-sectional assessment of compliance with the WHO guidelines [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Differential Associated Factors for Inadequate Receipt of Components and Non-Use of Antenatal Care Services among Adolescent, Young, and Older Women in Nigeria [2023]
    • Patterns and Predictors of Insufficient Antenatal Care Utilization in Nigeria over a Decade: A Pooled Data Analysis Using Demographic and Health Surveys [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and factors associated with underutilization of antenatal care services in Nigeria: A comparative study of rural and urban residences based on the 2013 Nigeria demographic and health survey [2018]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Assessment of quality of antenatal care services in Nigeria: evidence from a population-based survey [2015]
• Norway
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
    • Prenatal health of immigrant women in Norway – an exploratory literature review [2021]
• Peru
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Prevalence and Determinants of Adequate Compliance with Antenatal Care in Peru [2021]
• Philippines
  • BMJ Open
    • Reduction in inequality in antenatal-care use and persistence of inequality in skilled birth attendance in the Philippines from 1993 to 2008 [2013]
• Republic of Guinea
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of antenatal care and skilled birth attendance services utilization among childbearing women in Guinea: evidence from the 2018 Guinea Demographic and Health Survey data [2021]
• Rwanda
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Determinants of timing, adequacy and quality of antenatal care in Rwanda: a cross-sectional study using demographic and health surveys data [2023]
    • Factors associated with utilization of quality antenatal care: a secondary data analysis of Rwandan Demographic Health Survey 2020 [2022]
    • Quality of antenatal care services in Rwanda: assessing practices of health care providers [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Person-centered antenatal care and associated factors in Rwanda: a secondary analysis of program data [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Factors associated with receipt of adequate antenatal care among women in Rwanda: A secondary analysis of the 2019-20 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey [2023]
• Rwanda, Zambia
  • Digital Health
    • Integration of new digital antenatal care tools using the WHO SMART guideline approach: Experiences from Rwanda and Zambia [2022]
• Sierra Leone
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Status of the latest 2016 World Health Organization recommended frequency of antenatal care contacts in Sierra Leone: a nationally representative survey [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Socio-economic disadvantage and quality Antenatal Care (ANC) in Sierra Leone: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey [2023]
• South Africa
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Implementing antenatal care recommendations, South Africa [2021]
• South Asia
  • AJOG Global Reports
    • Does provision of antenatal care in Southern Asia improve neonatal survival? A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • BMJ Open
    • Do women’s empowerment and socioeconomic status predict the adequacy of antenatal care? A cross-sectional study in five South Asian countries [2021]
• South-East Asia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Urban-rural disparities of antenatal care in South East Asia: a case study in the Philippines and Indonesia [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BioMed Research International
    • Noncompliance with the WHO's Recommended Eight Antenatal Care Visits among Pregnant Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis [2021]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Examining barriers to healthcare access and utilization of antenatal care services: evidence from demographic health surveys in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Spatial variation and inequities in antenatal care coverage in Kenya, Uganda and mainland Tanzania using model-based geostatistics: a socioeconomic and geographical accessibility lens [2022]
    • Skilled antenatal care services utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: a pooled analysis of demographic and health surveys from 32 countries [2022]
    • Temporal relationship between Women’s empowerment and utilization of antenatal care services: lessons from four National Surveys in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
    • Determinants of completing recommended antenatal care utilization in sub-Saharan from 2006 to 2018: evidence from 36 countries using Demographic and Health Surveys [2021]
    • Interventions to improve adherence to antenatal and postnatal care regimens among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2020]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Type of occupation and early antenatal care visit among women in sub-Saharan Africa [2022]
  • BMJ Open
    • Development of indicators for integrated antenatal care service provision: a feasibility study in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and Sierra Leone [2023]
    • Determinants of antenatal care utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2019]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • Explaining socioeconomic disparities and gaps in the use of antenatal care services in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The impact of antenatal care on neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Delivery of integrated infectious disease control services under the new antenatal care guidelines: a service availability and readiness assessment of health facilities in Tanzania [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Twelve-year persistence of inequalities in antenatal care utilisation among women in Tanzania: a decomposition analysis of population-based cross-sectional surveys [2021]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • Do antenatal care visits always contribute to facility-based delivery in Tanzania? A study of repeated cross-sectional data [2015]
  • Tropical Medicine and Health
    • Trends and factors associated with the utilisation of antenatal care services during the Millennium Development Goals era in Tanzania [2020]
• Uganda
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Factors associated with Women's timing of first antenatal care visit during their last pregnancy: evidence from 2016 Uganda demographic health survey [2022]
• United Arab Emirates
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Antenatal Care Initiation Among Pregnant Women in the United Arab Emirates: The Mutaba'ah Study [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • 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]
    • Deprivation and poor psychosocial support are key determinants of late antenatal presentation and poor fetal outcomes-a combined retrospective and prospective study [2015]
  • Journal of Health Economics
    • The infant health effects of starting universal child benefits in pregnancy: Evidence from England and Wales [2023]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Antenatal care (Quality standard) [2023]
    • Antenatal care - Timing of first antenatal appointment [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Referral and delivery of antenatal care [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Peer support [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Number of antenatal appointments [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Involving partners [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Information provision [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Content of antenatal appointments [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Approaches to information provision [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Antenatal classes [2021]
    • Antenatal care - Accessing antenatal care [2021]
    • Antenatal care [2021]
    • Antenatal care for uncomplicated pregnancies [2019]
    • Pregnancy and complex social factors: A model for service provision for pregnant women with complex social factors [2010]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Schedule of Visits and Televisits for Routine Antenatal Care [2022]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • The Prenatal Visit [2018]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Group Prenatal Care [2018]
  • American Family Physician
    • Update on Prenatal Care [2014]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Variation in guideline-based prenatal care in a commercially insured population [2022]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Analysis of State Medicaid Expansion and Access to Timely Prenatal Care Among Women Who Were Immigrant vs US Born [2022]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Telemedicine in obstetrics—quality and safety considerations [2023]
• 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 Antenatal Care Randomized Trial: Manual for the Implementation of the new Model [2002]
    • Health inequality monitor: Maternal health interventions: Antenatal care coverage
    • Antenatal care coverage - at least four visits (%)
    • Antenatal Care
• Zambia
  • Ministry of Health Zambia
    • ANC guidelines for a positive pregnancy experience [2019]
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    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Autoimmune diseases in pregnancy

• Brazil
  • Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
    • Myasthenia gravis during pregnancy: what care should be taken? [2021]
• Canada
  • Canadian Rheumatology Association
    • Canadian Rheumatology Association Recommendations for the Assessment and Monitoring of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus [2018]
• Canada, Europe, United States
  • Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal
    • Maternal and infant outcomes of pregnancy associated with anti-SSA/RO antibodies: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Canada, United States
  • Lupus
    • The association of lupus nephritis with adverse pregnancy outcomes among women with lupus in North America [2022]
• Developing countries
  • Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
    • Pregnancy and lupus nephritis in developing countries: A systematic review [2020]
• Europe
  • European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology
    • Extended report: EULAR recommendations for women's health and the management of family planning, assisted reproduction, pregnancy and menopause in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and/or antiphospholipid syndrome [2017]
• France
  • Rheumatology
    • Evaluation of lupus anticoagulant, damage, and remission as predictors of pregnancy complications in systemic lupus erythematosus: the French GR2 study [2022]
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Pregnancy and Autoimmune Disease [2022]
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Recommendations of the AGG (Section Maternal Disease) for Myasthenia Gravis in Pregnancy [2021]
• International
  • Autoimmunity Reviews
    • Pregnancy outcome predictors in antiphospholipid syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • BioDrugs
    • Fetal and Neonatal Adverse Drug Reactions Associated with Biologics Taken During Pregnancy by Women with Autoimmune Diseases: Insights from an Analysis of the World Health Organization Pharmacovigilance Database (VigiBase®) [2023]
  • Drugs
    • Intrauterine Exposure to Biologics in Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases: A Systematic Review [2020]
• Italy
  • RMD Open
    • Impact of rheumatoid arthritis and methotrexate on pregnancy outcomes: retrospective cohort study of the Italian Society for Rheumatology [2022]
• Mexico
  • Reumatología Clínica
    • Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pregnancy in women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases of the Mexican College of Rheumatology. Part II [2015]
    • Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pregnancy in women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases of the Mexican College of Rheumatology. Part I [2015]
• Spain
  • Reumatología Clínica
    • Pregnancy control in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus/antiphospholipid syndrome. Part 2: Pregnancy follow-up [2021]
    • Pregnancy control in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome. Part 1: Infertility, ovarian preservation and preconception assessment. Consensus Document of the Spanish Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SEGO), the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) and the Spanish Society of Rheumatology (SER) [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Lupus Science & Medicine
    • Outcomes of pregnancy and associated factors in sub-Saharan African women with systemic lupus erythematosus: a scoping review [2020]
• Taiwan
  • BMJ Open
    • Fetal-neonatal and maternal pregnancy outcomes in women with rheumatoid arthritis: a population-based cohort study [2022]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Rheumatology
    • The British Society for Rheumatology guideline for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus in adults [2018]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Immune Modulating Therapies in Pregnancy and Lactation [2019]
  • Lupus Science & Medicine
    • Adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with systemic lupus erythematosus: can we improve predictions with machine learning? [2022]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #64: Systemic lupus erythematosus in pregnancy [2023]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Miscarriage

Bleeding in pregnancy, placenta diseases

• Australasia
  • Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
    • Placenta
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Peripartum hysterectomy in Australia: a working paper using the National Hospital Morbidity Database 2003–04 to 2013–14 [2016]
  • Better Safer Care
    • Antepartum haemorrhage: assessment and management
  • Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
    • A practical guide to placental examination for forensic pathologists [2020]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Updated Australian consensus statement on management of inherited bleeding disorders in pregnancy [2019]
    • A consensus statement on the management of pregnancy and delivery in women who are carriers of or have bleeding disorders [2009]
  • National Blood Authority
    • Patient Blood Management Guidelines: Module 5 Obstetrics and Maternity [2015]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Vasa praevia [2019]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Diagnosis and Management of Vasa Previa [2023]
    • Diagnosis and Management of Placenta Previa [2020]
    • Screening, Diagnosis, and Management of Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorders [2019]
• China
  • BMJ Open
    • Incidence, trends and risk factors for obstetric massive blood transfusion in China from 2012 to 2019: an observational study [2021]
  • Placenta
    • Epidemiology of placenta accreta spectrum disorders in Chinese pregnant women: A multicenter hospital-based study [2022]
• Colombia
  • Revista Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología
    • Colombian Consensus on the Treatment of Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) [2022]
• Denmark
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • A cost-minimisation analysis of performing point-of-care ultrasonography on patients with vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy in general practice: a decision analytical model [2022]
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Velamentous Cord Insertion and Vasa Previa [2018]
• Ethiopia
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • A Literature Review of Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorder: The Place of Expectant Management in Ethiopian Setup [2020]
• Europe
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Management of major obstetric hemorrhage prior to peripartum hysterectomy and outcomes across nine European countries [2021]
    • Epidemiological analysis of peripartum hysterectomy across nine European countries [2020]
• India
  • International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science
    • Contemporary issues in the management of abnormal placentation during pregnancy in developing nations: An Indian perspective [2013]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound in the diagnosis of Placenta accreta spectrum: systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Risk of preterm birth for placenta previa or low-lying placenta and possible preventive interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Insights into Imaging
    • Performance comparison of ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging in their diagnostic accuracy of placenta accreta spectrum disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • 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]
  • International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
    • Challenges in the management of women with type 2B von Willebrand disease during pregnancy and the postpartum period: evidence from literature and data from an international registry and physicians' survey-communication from the Scientific and Standardization Committees of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis [2023]
    • Examining international practices in the management of pregnant women with von Willebrand disease [2022]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Diagnosis of placenta accreta spectrum in high-risk women using ultrasonography or magnetic resonance imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Vaccine
    • Antenatal bleeding: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2017]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Diagnosis and Management of Placenta Accreta Spectrum [2022]
• Italy
  • PLoS ONE
    • Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women with placenta accreta spectrum in Italy: A prospective population-based cohort study [2021]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Third-trimester ultrasound for antenatal diagnosis of placenta accreta spectrum in women with placenta previa: results from the ADoPAD study [2022]
• Japan
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Maternal outcomes of placental abruption with intrauterine fetal death and delivery routes: A nationwide observational study [2023]
• Low and middle income countries
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • A simple guide to ultrasound screening for placenta accreta spectrum for improving detection and optimizing management in resource limited settings [2023]
• Norway, Sweden
  • European Journal of Epidemiology
    • Placental abruption and long-term maternal cardiovascular disease mortality: a population-based registry study in Norway and Sweden [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Management of unexplained vaginal bleeding in pregnancy [2021]
  • NHS England
    • Specialised maternity care for patients (child bearing age) diagnosed with abnormally invasive placenta [2020]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Vasa Praevia: Diagnosis and Management [2018]
    • Placenta Praevia and Placenta Accreta: Diagnosis and Management [2018]
    • Management of Inherited Bleeding Disorders in Pregnancy [2017]
    • Blood Transfusions in Obstetrics [2015]
    • Antepartum Haemorrhage [2011]
  • Royal College of Pathologists
    • Tissue pathway for histopathological examination of the placenta [2022]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Vasa praevia
    • Placenta praevia
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Placenta Accreta Spectrum [2018]
  • American College of Radiology
    • Second and Third Trimester Vaginal Bleeding
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Criteria for placental examination for obstetrical and neonatal providers [2022]
  • Expert Review of Hematology
    • The clinical management of factor XI deficiency in pregnant women [2020]
  • Modern Pathology
    • Classification and reporting guidelines for the pathology diagnosis of placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) disorders: recommendations from an expert panel [2020]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Altered fetal growth, placental abnormalities, and stillbirth [2017]
    • Morbidly adherent placenta treatments and outcomes [2015]
  • 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

• Brazil
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
    • Brazilian Cardiology Society Statement for Management of Pregnancy and Family Planning in Women with Heart Disease – 2020 [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Impact of Cardiac Diseases during Pregnancy on Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Brazil [2015]
• Burkina Faso
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence and Factors Associated with Cardiovascular Lifestyle Risk Factors among Pregnant Women in Burkina Faso: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study [2022]
• 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]
    • ESC Guidelines on the management of cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy: the Task Force on the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases during Pregnancy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) [2011]
    • Genetic counselling and testing in cardiomyopathies: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases [2010]
    • Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy [2010]
• Germany
  • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • Ivabradine use in pregnant women—treatment indications and pregnancy outcome: an evaluation of the German Embryotox database [2021]
• Germany, Hungary, Japan
  • Circulation Journal
    • Frequency of Miscarriage/Stillbirth and Terminations of Pregnancy Among Women With Congenital Heart Disease in Germany, Hungary and Japan [2016]
• High-income countries
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Outcome of Pregnancy in Women With D-Transposition of the Great Arteries: A Systematic Review [2022]
• International
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Maternal pregnancy outcomes in women with cardiomyopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • European Heart Journal
    • Management of valvular disease in pregnancy: a global perspective [2015]
  • Heart Rhythm Society
    • 2023 HRS Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Arrhythmias During Pregnancy [2023]
  • International Heart Journal
    • Worldwide Incidence of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Overall Maternal Mortality [2019]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Pregnancies in Women With Congenital Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis [2021]
  • Pharmacology Research & Perspectives
    • Adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with first-trimester exposure to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy and neonatal outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
    • Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in women with cardiovascular disease: position statement from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) [2021]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Methods and considerations concerning cardiac output measurement in pregnant women: recommendations of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics [2019]
    • Functional hemodynamic testing in pregnancy: recommendations of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics [2018]
    • Assessment of venous hemodynamics and volume homeostasis during pregnancy: recommendations of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics [2018]
    • Assessment of arterial function in pregnancy: recommendations of the International Working Group on Maternal Hemodynamics [2017]
• 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]
  • Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
    • Pregnancy-related maternal deaths due to cardiovascular diseases in Japan from 2010 to 2019: an analysis of maternal death exploratory committee data [2023]
• Netherlands
  • Netherlands Heart Journal
    • Maternal mortality due to cardiovascular disease in the Netherlands: a 21-year experience [2020]
• Republic of Korea
  • PLoS ONE
    • Preterm birth and maternal heart disease: A machine learning analysis using the Korean national health insurance database [2023]
• 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]
• Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Immediate resuscitation following maternal collapse during pregnancy [2021]
• Sweden
  • Journal of Cardiac Failure
    • Heart Failure in Late Pregnancy and Postpartum: Incidence and Long-Term Mortality in Sweden From 1997 to 2010 [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • BJA Education
    • Adult congenital heart disease and pregnancy [2018]
  • Clinical Medicine
    • Tachycardia in pregnancy: when to worry? [2021]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Maternal Collapse in Pregnancy and the Puerperium [2019]
• United States
  • Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health
    • Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health: Consensus Bundle on Cardiac Conditions in Obstetric Care [2023]
  • American College of Cardiology
    • Team-Based Care of Women With Cardiovascular Disease From Pre-Conception Through Pregnancy and Postpartum: JACC Focus Seminar 1/5 [2021]
    • Management of Women With Congenital or Inherited Cardiovascular Disease From Pre-Conception Through Pregnancy and Postpartum: JACC Focus Seminar 2/5 [2021]
    • Management of Women With Acquired Cardiovascular Disease From Pre-Conception Through Pregnancy and Postpartum: JACC Focus Seminar 3/5 [2021]
    • Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging and Therapeutic Strategies in Pregnancy: JACC Focus Seminar 4/5 [2021]
    • Summary of Updated Recommendations for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women [2020]
    • Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy [2018]
  • American Heart Association
    • Status of Maternal Cardiovascular Health in American Indian and Alaska Native Individuals: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2023]
    • Optimizing Prepregnancy Cardiovascular Health to Improve Outcomes in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals and Offspring: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2023]
    • Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Women: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2023]
    • Appraising the Preclinical Evidence of the Role of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System in Antenatal Programming of Maternal and Offspring Cardiovascular Health Across the Life Course: Moving the Field Forward: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2023]
    • Anesthetic Care of the Pregnant Patient With Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2023]
    • Survival outcomes and resuscitation process measures in maternal in-hospital cardiac arrest [2022]
    • Call to Action: Maternal Health and Saving Mothers: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association [2021]
    • Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Unique Opportunities for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2021]
    • Promoting Risk Identification and Reduction of Cardiovascular Disease in Women Through Collaboration With Obstetricians and Gynecologists: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2018]
    • Management of Pregnancy in Patients With Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association [2017]
    • Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2015]
  • American Journal of Cardiology
    • Assessing Pregnancy, Gestational Complications, and Co-morbidities in Women With Congenital Heart Defects (Data from ICD-9-CM Codes in 3 US Surveillance Sites) [2020]
  • Circulation
    • Cardiovascular Management in Pregnancy: Antithrombotic Agents and Antiplatelet Agents [2015]
  • Clinical Cardiology
    • Early identification and treatment of women's cardiovascular risk factors prevents cardiovascular disease, saves lives, and protects future generations: Policy recommendations and take action plan utilizing policy levers [2022]
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
    • A Call to Action: Cardiovascular-Related Maternal Mortality: Inequities in Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color [2021]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Aortic Dissection During Pregnancy and Puerperium: Contemporary Incidence and Outcomes in the United States [2023]
    • Trends, Predictors, and Outcomes of Cardiovascular Complications Associated With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome During Delivery Hospitalizations: A National Inpatient Sample Analysis (2002–2019) [2022]
    • Reducing Cardiovascular Maternal Mortality by Extending Medicaid for Postpartum Women [2021]
    • Improving Cardiovascular Workforce Competencies in Cardio-Obstetrics: Current Challenges and Future Directions [2020]
    • Receipt of American Heart Association–Recommended Preconception Health Care Among Privately Insured Women With Congenital Heart Defects, 2007–2013 [2019]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #61: Anticoagulation in pregnant patients with cardiac disease [2022]
  • Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
    • The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Consensus Statement on the Management of Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy

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

• International
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
    • Depression in pregnant and postpartum women during COVID-19 pandemic: systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• 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
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Preconception, antenatal and postpartum management of inflammatory bowel disease [2022]
• 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]
• Denmark
  • Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
    • The safety of paternal and maternal use of 5-aminosalicylic acid during conception and pregnancy: a nationwide cohort study [2022]
  • BMC Medicine
    • Adverse birth outcomes and early-life infections after in utero exposure to corticosteroids for inflammatory bowel disease: a Danish nationwide cohort study [2023]
• Europe
  • European Association for the Study of the Liver
    • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of liver diseases in pregnancy [2023]
  • European Crohn´s and Colitis Organisation
    • Third European Evidence-based Consensus on Diagnosis and Management of Ulcerative Colitis. Part 1: Definitions, Diagnosis, Extra-intestinal Manifestations, Pregnancy, Cancer Surveillance, Surgery, and Ileo-anal Pouch Disorders [2017]
    • Second European Evidenced-Based Consensus on Reproduction and Pregnancy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease [2015]
• France
  • PLoS ONE
    • Drug use for gastrointestinal symptoms during pregnancy: A French nationwide study 2010–2018 [2021]
• Germany
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Management of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: Recommendations of the Working Group on Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine – Section on Maternal Disorders [2021]
    • Care of Women with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Chronic IBD) During Pregnancy: Recommendations of the Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine Working Group of the DGGG [2021]
• India
  • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
    • Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver—Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India Position Statement on Management of Liver Diseases in Pregnancy [2019]
• International
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Pharmacological interventions for treating intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy [2020]
• Italy
  • Digestive and Liver Disease
    • AISF position paper on liver transplantation and pregnancy [2016]
    • AISF position paper on liver disease and pregnancy [2016]
• Japan
  • Journal of Gastroenterology
    • Expert consensus on vaccination in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Japan [2023]
• Republic of Korea
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Associations of Preterm Birth with Dental and Gastrointestinal Diseases: Machine Learning Analysis Using National Health Insurance Data [2023]
    • Association of Preterm Birth with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Salivary Gland Disease: Machine Learning Analysis Using National Health Insurance Data [2022]
• Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Liver Disorders of Pregnancy [2022]
• Sweden
  • Hepatology Communications
    • Outcomes of Pregnancy in Mothers With Cirrhosis: A National Population-Based Cohort Study of 1.3 Million Pregnancies [2018]
• Switzerland
  • Digestion
    • Update on the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy: management strategy based on best evidence and European guidelines [2014]
  • British Society of Gastroenterology
    • Standards for the provision of antenatal care for patients with inflammatory bowel disease: guidance endorsed by the British Society of Gastroenterology and the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society [2021]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Management of heartburn in pregnancy [2021]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy [2022]
• United States
  • American College of Gastroenterology
    • ACG Clinical Guideline: Liver Disease and Pregnancy [2016]
  • American Gastroenterological Association
    • American Gastroenterological Association Institute - Technical Review on the Use of Gastrointestinal Medications in Pregnancy [2006]
    • American Gastroenterological Association Institute - Medical Position Statement on the Use of Gastrointestinal Medications in Pregnancy [2006]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Management of Complicated Appendicitis During Pregnancy in the US [2022]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #53: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy [2021]
  • Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
    • Guidelines for the Use of Laparoscopy during Pregnancy [2017]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, hyperemesis gravidarum
    • Hepatitis in pregnancy and newborn

Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium
• Australia, New Zealand
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study [2015]
• Balkan countries
  • Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
    • Position Paper on the Management of Pregnancy-Associated Superficial Venous Thrombosis. Balkan Working Group for Prevention and Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism [2022]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Venous Thromboembolism and Antithrombotic Therapy in Pregnancy [2014]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Amniotic fluid embolism as a cause of maternal mortality in China between 1996 and 2013: a population-based retrospective study [2016]
  • Chinese Medical Journal
    • Interpretation of Chinese expert consensus on diagnosis and management of amniotic fluid embolism [2020]
  • Intractable & Rare Diseases Research
    • Amniotic Fluid Embolism (AFE) in China: Are maternal mortality and morbidity preventable? [2014]
• Europe
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Venous thromboembolism in women: a specific reproductive health risk [2013]
• Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Current Vascular Pharmacology
    • Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Adequacy of Prophylaxis in High Risk Pregnancy in the Arabian Gulf [2016]
• International
  • Advances in Therapy
    • Safety and Efficacy of Enoxaparin in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Postpartum venous thromboembolism prophylaxis may cause more harm than benefit: a critical analysis of international guidelines through an evidence-based lens [2018]
  • BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
    • Critical appraisal of international guidelines for the prevention and treatment of pregnancy-associated venous thromboembolism: a systematic review [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Risk assessment models for venous thromboembolism in pregnancy and in the puerperium: a systematic review [2022]
  • Hematology: the American Society of Hematology Education Program
    • Prevention and management of venous thromboembolism in pregnancy: cutting through the practice variation [2021]
  • Journal of Perinatal Medicine
    • Strategies for the prevention of maternal death from venous thromboembolism clinical recommendations based on current literature [2022]
  • Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis
    • Guidance for the treatment and prevention of obstetric-associated venous thromboembolism [2016]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Thromboprophylaxis during the Pregnancy-Puerperal Cycle [2020]
• Japan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • A retrospective cohort study using a national surveillance questionnaire to investigate the characteristics of maternal venous thromboembolism in Japan in 2018 [2021]
  • Circulation Journal
    • Increase in Maternal Death-Related Venous Thromboembolism During Pregnancy in Japan (2010–2013) [2015]
  • Neurologia medico-chirurgica
    • Antithrombotic Therapy for Pregnant Women [2013]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism, 2nd Edition: Korean Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines [2014]
• Sweden
  • Advances in Hematology
    • Obstetric thromboprophylaxis: the Swedish guidelines [2011]
  • BMJ Open
    • Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study [2015]
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology: X
    • Duration of labor among women with thromboembolic events: A Swedish register study [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Incidence of and risk factors for thromboembolism during pregnancy and postpartum: A 10-year nationwide population-based study [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Risk factors for venous thromboembolism in pregnancy [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Incidence of First Venous Thromboembolism in and around Pregnancy Using Linked Primary and Secondary Care Data: A Population Based Cohort Study from England and Comparative Meta-Analysis [2013]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium: Acute Management [2015]
    • Reducing the Risk of Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium [2015]
• United States
  • American College of Chest Physicians
    • VTE, thrombophilia, antithrombotic therapy, and pregnancy: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines [2012]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Proposed diagnostic criteria for the case definition of amniotic fluid embolism in research studies [2016]
  • American Society of Hematology
    • American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: venous thromboembolism in the context of pregnancy [2018]
  • Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
    • Standardized Practices to Address Maternal Venous Thromboembolism: AWHONN Practice Brief Number 7 [2020]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Venous Thromboembolism [2016]
  • Seminars in Perinatology
    • Venous thromboembolism as a cause of severe maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States [2019]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Checklist for initial management of amniotic fluid embolism [2021]
    • Amniotic fluid embolism: diagnosis and management [2016]
  • Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
    • The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Consensus Statement on the Anesthetic Management of Pregnant and Postpartum Women Receiving Thromboprophylaxis or Higher Dose Anticoagulants [2018]
  • Thrombosis Research
    • Developing a Model for Predicting Venous Thromboembolism in Obese Pregnant Women in a National Study [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy

Environmental exposures in pregnancy

• Africa
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Increasing global temperatures threaten gains in maternal and newborn health in Africa: A review of impacts and an adaptation framework [2023]
• Australia
  • Fertility Society of Australia
    • The effects of environmental chemicals on fertility and fecundity [2021]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australasian College of Physicians
    • The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Guide to Pregnancy and Work [2017]
• Austria
  • Birth
    • Exposure to night-time light pollution and risk of prolonged duration of labor: A nationwide cohort study [2022]
• Belgium
  • Environmental Research
    • Epigenome-wide analysis of maternal exposure to green space during gestation and cord blood DNA methylation in the ENVIRONAGE cohort [2023]
• Canada
  • Annals of Work Exposures and Health
    • Pregnancy Outcome in Women Exposed to Metal Fume in Welding: A Canadian Cohort Study [2022]
  • 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]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Maternal Folate Status and the Relation between Gestational Arsenic Exposure and Child Health Outcomes [2022]
  • 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]
• Chile
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Association of Prematurity and Low Birth Weight with Gestational Exposure to PM2.5 and PM10 Particulate Matter in Chileans Newborns [2022]
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    • An examination of behavioural and emotional problems in children exposed prenatally to the 27F Chilean earthquake: findings from the ELPI cohort [2023]
• China
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
    • The burden of mild intellectual disability attributed to prenatal exposure to methylmercury in China, 2017 [2023]
    • Gestational PM2.5 exposure may increase the risk of small for gestational age through maternal blood pressure and hemoglobin: A mediation analysis based on a prospective cohort in China, 2014-2018 [2022]
    • Associations of pregnancy complications with ambient air pollution in China [2022]
  • Environment International
    • Modification effects of ambient temperature on associations of ambient ozone exposure before and during pregnancy with adverse birth outcomes: A multicity study in China [2023]
    • Maternal exposure to PM2.5/BC during pregnancy predisposes children to allergic rhinitis which varies by regions and exclusive breastfeeding [2022]
    • Interaction effect of prenatal and postnatal exposure to ambient air pollution and temperature on childhood asthma [2022]
    • Early-life exposure to PM2.5 constituents and childhood asthma and wheezing: Findings from China, Children, Homes, Health study [2022]
    • Acute and chronic maternal exposure to fine particulate matter and prelabor rupture of the fetal membranes: A nation-wide survey in China [2022]
    • Ambient temperature and the risk of preterm birth: A national birth cohort study in the mainland China [2020]
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • Extreme Temperature Exposure and Risks of Preterm Birth Subtypes Based on a Nationwide Survey in China [2023]
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
    • Maternal exposure to O3 and NO2 may increase the risk of newborn congenital hypothyroidism: a national data-based analysis in China [2021]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Associations of Early-Life Exposure to Submicron Particulate Matter With Childhood Asthma and Wheeze in China [2022]
  • Nutrients
    • Patterns and Determinants of Essential and Toxic Elements in Chinese Women at Mid-Pregnancy, Late Pregnancy, and Lactation [2021]
• China, United States
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
    • Relationships of prenatal organophosphate ester exposure with pregnancy and birth outcomes: A systematic scoping review of epidemiological studies [2023]
• Costa Rica
  • International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
    • Prenatal pesticide exposure and respiratory health outcomes in the first year of life: Results from the Infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) study [2020]
• Denmark
  • Environment International
    • Prenatal exposure to tap water containing nitrate and the risk of small-for-gestational-age: A nationwide register-based study of Danish births, 1991-2015 [2023]
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • Early-Life Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution from Multiple Sources and Asthma Incidence in Children: A Nationwide Birth Cohort Study from Denmark [2023]
    • Maternal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Male Reproductive Function in Young Adulthood: Combined Exposure to Seven PFAS [2022]
    • 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]
  • Lancet Regional Health - Europe
    • Nitrate in drinking water and risk of birth defects: Findings from a cohort study of over one million births in Denmark [2022]
• Estonia
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Perinatal Health Inequalities in the Industrial Region of Estonia: A Birth Registry-Based Study [2022]
• Ethiopia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Environmental exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Europe
  • BMC Medicine
    • Prenatal environmental exposures associated with sex differences in childhood obesity and neurodevelopment [2023]
  • Environment International
    • Parental occupational exposure to combustion products, metals, silica and asbestos and risk of childhood leukaemia: Findings from the Childhood Cancer and Leukaemia International Consortium (CLIC) [2022]
    • Early-life environmental exposure determinants of child behavior in Europe: A longitudinal, population-based study [2021]
    • Prenatal and postnatal exposure to air pollution and emotional and aggressive symptoms in children from 8 European birth cohorts [2019]
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • European Birth Cohorts for Environmental Health Research [2012]
  • European Society of Cardiology
    • Occupational radiation exposure in the electrophysiology laboratory with a focus on personnel with reproductive potential and during pregnancy: A European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) consensus document endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) [2017]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Intrauterine Exposures and Maternal Health Status during Pregnancy in Relation to Later Child Health: A Review of Pregnancy Cohort Studies in Europe [2021]
    • Adverse Birth Outcomes Related to NO2 and PM Exposure: European Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Association of Prenatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals With Liver Injury in Children [2022]
  • Nature Communications
    • Multi-omics signatures of the human early life exposome [2022]
  • 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 European Region
    • Mercury and human health [2021]
    • Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: standard operating procedures [2018]
    • Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: human biomonitoring survey [2018]
    • Health risks of heavy metals from long-range transboundary air pollution [2007]
• Europe, United States
  • Society of Interventional Radiology
    • Occupational radiation protection of pregnant or potentially pregnant workers in IR: a joint guideline of the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe [2015]
    • Radiation management for interventions using fluoroscopic or computed tomographic guidance during pregnancy: a joint guideline of the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe with Endorsement by the Canadian Interventional Radiology Association [2012]
• France
  • BMJ Open
    • Biomechanical and organisational constraints of pregnant women at work: definition of exposure levels using a consensus method (Delphi) [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Maternal Ambient Exposure to Atmospheric Pollutants during Pregnancy and Offspring Term Birth Weight in the Nationwide ELFE Cohort [2021]
• Germany
  • RöFo
    • Prenatal radiation exposure in diagnostic and interventional radiology [2021]
• Ghana
  • Environmental Research
    • Prenatal exposure to long-term heat stress and stillbirth in Ghana: A within-space time-series analysis [2023]
• Greece, Slovenia
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • An exposome connectivity paradigm for the mechanistic assessment of the effects of prenatal and early life exposure to metals on neurodevelopment [2023]
• High-income countries
  • Scientific Reports
    • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse reproductive and birth outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• International
  • Aging
    • Association between prenatal air pollution exposure and risk of hypospadias in offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies [2021]
  • BMJ
    • Associations between high temperatures in pregnancy and risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirths: systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
    • Association of BPA exposure during pregnancy with risk of preterm birth and changes in gestational age: A meta-analysis and systematic review [2021]
  • Environment International
    • Wildfire exposure during pregnancy and the risk of adverse birth outcomes: A systematic review [2021]
    • Gestational triclosan exposure and infant birth weight: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
    • Phthalate exposure and female reproductive and developmental outcomes: a systematic review of the human epidemiological evidence [2019]
  • Environmental Health
    • Determinants of maternal and neonatal PFAS concentrations: a review [2023]
  • Environmental Research
    • Systematic review and meta-analysis of birth weight and PFNA exposures [2023]
  • Epidemiologia e Prevenzione
    • Environmental and individual exposure and the risk of congenital anomalies: a review of recent epidemiological evidence [2018]
  • Europace
    • Risk of ionizing radiation in pregnancy: just a myth or a real concern? [2023]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Household polluting cooking fuels and adverse birth outcomes: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
    • Association Between Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
    • A global perspective of correlation between maternal blood lead levels and risks of preeclampsia: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Congenital anomalies in the offspring of occupationally exposed mothers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using expert assessment for occupational exposures [2019]
  • Intergrowth-21st
    • A rapid questionnaire assessment of environmental exposures to pregnant women in the INTERGROWTH-21st Project [2013]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Nutritional interventions to ameliorate the effect of endocrine disruptors on human reproductive health: A semi-structured review from FIGO [2022]
    • FIGO calls for removal of PFAS from global use [2021]
    • Climate change, women's health, and the role of obstetricians and gynecologists in leadership [2021]
    • Removal of glyphosate from global usage [2019]
    • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics opinion on reproductive health impacts of exposure to toxic environmental chemicals [2015]
  • International Journal of Biometeorology
    • Physiological mechanisms of the impact of heat during pregnancy and the clinical implications: review of the evidence from an expert group meeting [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Extreme Heat and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Scoping Review of the Epidemiological Evidence [2022]
    • Environmental Toxicants and Preterm Birth: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends and Output [2022]
    • Prenatal Environmental Metal Exposure and Preterm Birth: A Scoping Review [2021]
    • Early-Life Exposure to Environmental Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review of Available Evidence [2021]
    • In Utero Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution during Pregnancy: Impact on Birth Weight and Health through the Life Course [2020]
    • WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review on Environmental Noise and Adverse Birth Outcomes [2017]
  • International Journal of Public Health
    • Risk Factors for Working Pregnant Women and Potential Adverse Consequences of Exposure: A Systematic Review [2023]
  • Journal of Mother and Child
    • A Comprehensive Review on Hot Ambient Temperature and its Impacts on Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes [2023]
  • Nature Communications
    • Estimation of stillbirths attributable to ambient fine particles in 137 countries [2022]
  • Nutrients
    • A Systematic Review of Bisphenol A from Dietary and Non-Dietary Sources during Pregnancy and Its Possible Connection with Fetal Growth Restriction: Investigating Its Potential Effects and the Window of Fetal Vulnerability [2021]
  • Reproductive Toxicology
    • Heightened Susceptibility: A Review of How Pregnancy and Chemical Exposures Influence Maternal Health [2020]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Air pollution and pregnancy outcomes based on exposure evaluation using a land use regression model: A systematic review [2021]
• Italy
  • Environment International
    • Maternal pesticides exposure in pregnancy and the risk of wheezing in infancy: A prospective cohort study [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Association between Exposure to Particulate Matter during Pregnancy and Multidimensional Development in School-Age Children: A Cross-Sectional Study in Italy [2021]
• Japan
  • Environment International
    • Periconceptional maternal diet quality influences blood heavy metal concentrations and their effect on low birth weight: the Japan Environment and Children's Study [2023]
    • Longitudinal analyses of maternal and cord blood manganese levels and neurodevelopment in children up to 3 years of age: The Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS) [2022]
    • Individual and mixed metal maternal blood concentrations in relation to birth size: An analysis of the Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS) [2022]
    • Exposure to heavy metals modifies optimal gestational weight gain: A large nationally representative cohort of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
    • Association of prenatal exposure to cadmium with neurodevelopment in children at 2 years of age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • Maternal Metals Exposure and Infant Weight Trajectory: The Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS) [2022]
  • Environmental Research
    • Association between whole blood metallic elements concentrations and gestational diabetes mellitus in Japanese women: The Japan environment and Children's study [2022]
  • European Journal of Epidemiology
    • Mortality among individuals exposed to atomic bomb radiation in utero: 1950–2012 [2021]
  • International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
    • Association between prenatal cadmium exposure and child development: The Japan Environment and Children's study [2022]
  • Journal of Epidemiology
    • The Effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake on Perinatal Outcomes: Results of the Pregnancy and Birth Survey in the Fukushima Health Management Survey [2022]
    • Effects of External Radiation Exposure on Perinatal Outcomes in Pregnant Women After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: the Fukushima Health Management Survey [2022]
  • Science of The Total Environment
    • Associations between prenatal exposure to volatile organic compounds and neurodevelopment in 12-month-old children: The Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS) [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Maternal Exposure to Housing Renovation During Pregnancy and Risk of Offspring with Congenital Malformation: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2019]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure in Latin American and the Caribbean Populations: A Scoping Review [2022]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Environment International
    • Extreme heat, preterm birth, and stillbirth: A global analysis across 14 lower-middle income countries [2022]
  • Environmental Research
    • Adverse birth outcomes associated with household air pollution from unclean cooking fuels in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2022]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Household air pollution and incidence of eclampsia in eight low- and middle-income countries [2023]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Interventions to reduce cadmium exposure in low- and middle-income countries during pregnancy and childhood: A systematic review [2022]
• Malawi
  • Malawi Medical Journal
    • Maternal biomass smoke exposure and birth weight in Malawi: Analysis of data from the 2010 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey [2017]
• Netherlands
  • Nutrients
    • Prenatal Environmental Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Indices of Overweight and Cardiovascular Risk in Dutch Adolescents [2022]
• Nigeria
  • Scientific Reports
    • Impact assessment of particulate pollution on maternal mortality in Nigeria [2022]
• Oman
  • Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
    • Ergonomic Stressors Among Pregnant Healthcare Workers: Impact on pregnancy outcomes and recommended safety practices [2021]
• Poland
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • REPRO_PL-Polish Mother and Child Cohort-Exposure, Health Status, and Neurobehavioral Assessments in Adolescents-Design and Cohort Update [2022]
• Republic of Korea
  • Environment International
    • Effect of heat waves and fine particulate matter on preterm births in Korea from 2010 to 2016 [2021]
  • Environmental Research
    • Effects of mercury exposure on fetal body burden and its association with infant growth [2023]
  • Journal of Occupational Health
    • Risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes by maternal occupational status: A national population-based study in South Korea [2023]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Association between early preterm birth and maternal exposure to fine particular matter (PM10): A nation-wide population-based cohort study using machine learning [2023]
  • Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine
    • Reproductive toxic agents in work environments and related cases in Korea [2020]
• Spain
  • Environmental Research
    • Susceptible windows of exposure to fine particulate matter and fetal growth trajectories in the Spanish INMA (INfancia y Medio Ambiente) birth cohort [2023]
  • Epidemiology
    • Identifying Sensitive Windows of Exposure to NO2 and Fetal Growth Trajectories in a Spanish Birth Cohort [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Air Pollution and Birth Outcomes: Health Impact and Economic Value Assessment in Spain [2023]
    • Exposure to Traffic Density during Pregnancy and Birth Weight in a National Cohort, 2000-2017 [2022]
  • Pediatric Research
    • Maternal occupational exposure to chemicals and child cognitive function [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal occupational exposures and fetal growth in a Spanish birth cohort [2022]
• Sudan
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Present and Future Drinking Water Security and Its Impacts on Maternities: A Multi-Scale Assessment of Sudan [2023]
• Suriname
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Association of Mercury Exposure and Maternal Sociodemographics on Birth Outcomes of Indigenous and Tribal Women in Suriname [2021]
• Sweden
  • BMJ Open
    • Occupational exposure to inorganic particles during pregnancy and birth outcomes: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden [2019]
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
    • Occupational exposure to organic particles and combustion products during pregnancy and birth outcome in a nationwide cohort study in Sweden [2019]
  • Science of The Total Environment
    • Occupational exposure to whole body vibrations and birth outcomes – A nationwide cohort study of Swedish women [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Chemosphere
    • Association between two common environmental toxicants (phthalates and melamine) and urinary markers of renal injury in the third trimester of pregnant women: The Taiwan Maternal and Infant Cohort Study (TMICS) [2021]
  • Environment International
    • Co-exposure to toxic metals and phthalates in pregnant women and their children's mental health problems aged four years - Taiwan Maternal and Infant Cohort Study (TMICS) [2023]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Air Pollution during Pregnancy and Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorder in Taiwan [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Extreme temperature increases the risk of stillbirth in the third trimester of pregnancy [2022]
• Thailand
  • Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
    • Exposure to ambient particulate matter and biomass burning during pregnancy: associations with birth weight in Thailand [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Chemical Exposures During Pregnancy: Dealing with Potential, but Unproven, Risks to Child Health [2013]
  • Royal College of Radiologists
    • Radiation and the early fetus [2013]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Childhood and Pregnancy: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2019]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Reducing Prenatal Exposure to Toxic Environmental Agents [2021]
    • Air Travel During Pregnancy [2018]
    • Lead Screening During Pregnancy and Lactation [2012]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
    • Exposure to toxic metals and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the risk of preeclampsia and preterm birth in the United States: A review [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Cohort profile: the ECHO prenatal and early childhood pathways to health consortium (ECHO-PATHWAYS) [2022]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Guidelines for the identification and management of lead exposure in pregnant and lactating women [2010]
  • Environment International
    • Urinary phthalate metabolite mixtures in pregnancy and fetal growth: Findings from the infant development and the environment study [2022]
    • Maternal exposure to urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in pregnancy and childhood asthma in a pooled multi-cohort study [2022]
  • Environmental Health
    • Acute association between heatwaves and stillbirth in six US states [2022]
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • Prenatal Phthalate Exposure and Child Weight and Adiposity from in Utero to 6 Years of Age [2022]
    • Associations of Pre- and Postnatal Air Pollution Exposures with Child Behavioral Problems and Cognitive Performance: A U.S. Multi-Cohort Study [2022]
  • Environmental Research
    • Association of prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution with adverse birth outcomes and effect modification by socioeconomic factors [2022]
  • Environmental Science & Technology
    • Exposure to Contemporary and Emerging Chemicals in Commerce among Pregnant Women in the United States: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcome (ECHO) Program [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Climate Change-Related Environmental Exposures and Perinatal and Maternal Health Outcomes in the U.S [2023]
    • Pre- and Postnatal Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Childhood Cognitive and Adaptive Function [2022]
    • Maternal Exposure to Disinfection By-Products and Risk of Hypospadias in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (2000–2005) [2020]
    • The Cumulative Risk of Chemical and Nonchemical Exposures on Birth Outcomes in Healthy Women: The Fetal Growth Study [2019]
    • Maternal Occupational Oil Mist Exposure and Birth Defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–2011 [2019]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Association of Air Pollution and Heat Exposure With Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight, and Stillbirth in the US [2020]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Projected Changes in Maternal Heat Exposure During Early Pregnancy and the Associated Congenital Heart Defect Burden in the United States [2019]
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
    • Firefighter occupational factors and the risk of preterm birth: results from a survey of women firefighters in the USA [2023]
    • Maternal occupation as a nail technician or hairdresser during pregnancy and birth defects, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2011 [2022]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Organophosphate exposures during pregnancy and child neurodevelopment: Recommendations for essential policy reforms [2018]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women: Screening [2019]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Fourth edition incorporating the first and second addenda [2022]
    • Mercury and human health: educational course [2021]
    • Guideline for clinical management of exposure to lead [2021]
    • Exposure to lead: a major public health concern, 2nd edition [2021]
    • Principles and methods to assess the risk of immunotoxicity associated with exposure to nanomaterials [2020]
    • Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks [2018]
    • Preventing disease through a healthier and safer workspace [2018]
    • Guidance document on evaluating and expressing uncertainty in hazard characterization, 2nd edition [2018]
    • Don’t pollute my future! The impact of the environment on children’s health [2017]
    • State of the science of endocrine disrupting chemicals 2012 [2012]
    • Guidance for immunotoxicity risk assessment for chemicals [2012]
    • Endocrine disrupters and child health [2012]
    • DDT in indoor residual spraying: human health aspects [2011]
    • Mercury: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels [2008]
    • Indoor air pollution: from solid fuels and risk of low birth weight and stillbirth [2007]
    • Preventing early life environmental exposure
    • Lead poisoning: Fact sheet
    • Environmental health
    • Chemical safety
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  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Exercise and physical activity in pregnancy

• Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Physical activity and exercise during pregnancy in Africa: a review of the literature [2020]
• Asia-Pacific
  • BMJ Open Sport — Exercise Medicine
    • Asia-Pacific consensus on physical activity and exercise in pregnancy and the postpartum period [2021]
• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Exercise in pregnancy [2014]
  • JMIR mHealth and uHealth
    • Evaluating Evidence-Based Content, Features of Exercise Instruction, and Expert Involvement in Physical Activity Apps for Pregnant Women: Systematic Search and Content Analysis [2022]
    • Quality, Features, and Presence of Behavior Change Techniques in Mobile Apps Designed to Improve Physical Activity in Pregnant Women: Systematic Search and Content Analysis [2021]
  • Value in Health
    • A Comparison of the Cost-Effectiveness of Lifestyle Interventions in Pregnancy [2022]
  • Women's Health
    • Longitudinal association of physical activity during pregnancy with maternal and infant outcomes: Findings from the Australian longitudinal study of women's health [2022]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Exercise during pregnancy [2020]
• Brazil
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
    • Position Statement on Exercise During Pregnancy and the Post-Partum Period – 2021 [2021]
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Trend in physical activity patterns of pregnant women living in Brazilian capitals [2022]
• Canada
  • Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
    • Development of the Get Active Questionnaire for Pregnancy: breaking down barriers to prenatal exercise [2022]
    • Evidence-based risk assessment and recommendations for physical activity clearance: pregnancy [2011]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Dissemination and implementation strategies for physical activity guidelines among adults with disability, chronic conditions, and pregnancy: a systematic scoping review [2022]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Hot yoga and pregnancy: Fitness and hyperthermia [2014]
  • Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association
    • Physical activity throughout pregnancy: guideline critical appraisal and implementation tool [2021]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • 2019 Canadian guideline for physical activity throughout pregnancy [2018]
• China
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Changes in physical activity across pregnancy among Chinese women: a longitudinal cohort study [2021]
• Colombia
  • Scientific Reports
    • Factors associated with meeting the WHO physical activity recommendations in pregnant Colombian women [2022]
• Denmark
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Compliance with national recommendations for exercise during early pregnancy in a Danish cohort [2015]
• Europe
  • BMJ Open
    • Status and contents of physical activity recommendations in European Union countries: a systematic comparative analysis [2020]
• France
  • Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
    • Beneficial Effects of Maternal Physical Activity during Pregnancy on Fetal, Newborn, and Child Health: Guidelines for Interventions during the Perinatal Period from the French National College of Midwives [2022]
• International
  • American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
    • Guidelines for Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Comparisons From Around the World [2014]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Current Research Trends, Hotspots, and Frontiers of Physical Activity during Pregnancy: A Bibliometric Analysis [2022]
    • Can Group Exercise Programs Improve Health Outcomes in Pregnant Women? An Updated Systematic Review [2022]
    • Integrative Review of Exercise at Altitude during Pregnancy [2021]
  • Women's Health Reports
    • Professional Exercise Recommendations for Healthy Women Who Are Pregnant: A Systematic Review [2021]
• Iran
  • Acta Medica Iranica
    • Is ACOG guideline helpful for encouraging pregnant women to do exercise during pregnancy? [2014]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Relationship between Physical Activity and Physical and Mental Health Status in Pregnant Women: A Prospective Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
• Lithuania
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Women's Knowledge and Perceptions of the Effect of Exercise during Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study [2023]
• Nigeria
  • ISRN Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Knowledge and Attitude of Nigerian Pregnant Women towards Antenatal Exercise: A Cross-Sectional Survey [2014]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Predicting who fails to meet the physical activity guideline in pregnancy: a prospective study of objectively recorded physical activity in a population-based multi-ethnic cohort [2016]
• Poland
  • Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
    • Physical activity patterns in third trimester of pregnancy – use of pregnancy physical activity questionnaire in Poland [2020]
    • Influence of prenatal physical activity on the course of labour and delivery according to the new Polish standard for perinatal care [2013]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Impact of Physical Activity of Pregnant Women on Obstetric Outcomes [2022]
    • Physical Activity Patterns among 9000 Pregnant Women in Poland: A Cross-Sectional Study [2020]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • Level of exercise and physical activity among pregnant women in Saudi Arabia: A systematic review [2021]
• Singapore
  • Perinatal Society of Singapore
    • Guidelines on physical activity & exercise in pregnancy [2020]
• South Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Exercise during pregnancy: knowledge and beliefs of medical practitioners in South Africa: a survey study [2015]
• Sweden
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Physical activity and sedentary time during pregnancy and associations with maternal and fetal health outcomes: an epidemiological study [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Physical activity for pregnant women: an infographic for healthcare professionals [2017]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Moving through Motherhood: Involving the Public in Research to Inform Physical Activity Promotion throughout Pregnancy and Beyond [2021]
  • Royal College of Physicians
    • Pregnancy: occupational aspects of management: concise guidance [2013]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Physical Activity and Exercise During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2020]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
    • Physical activity and pregnancy outcomes: an expert review [2023]
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Prevalence of U.S. Pregnant Women Meeting 2015 ACOG Physical Activity Guidelines [2016]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Provisional Recommended Weight Limits for Manual Lifting During Pregnancy [2014]
    • Clinical guidelines for occupational lifting in pregnancy: evidence summary and provisional recommendations [2013]
  • Clinical Medicine Insights: Women's Health
    • Activity in Pregnancy for Patients with a History of Preterm Birth [2016]
  • Cureus
    • Exercise During Pregnancy: Obstetricians’ Beliefs and Recommendations Compared to American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ 2015 Guidelines [2018]
  • International Journal of Exercise Science
    • An Assessment of Mobile Applications Designed to Address Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Postpartum [2021]
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
    • Benefits of Physical Activity during Pregnancy and Postpartum: An Umbrella Review [2019]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Physical Activity in Pregnancy and Neonatal Body Composition: The Healthy Start Study [2014]
  • Women's Health Issues
    • Exercise during pregnancy and risk of late preterm birth, cesarean delivery, and hospitalizations [2014]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour [2020]
    • WHO Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour: Web Annex Evidence profiles [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol in pregnancy

• Africa
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Actual and predicted prevalence of alcohol consumption during pregnancy in the WHO African Region [2016]
• Americas
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Assessment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2020]
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a review of interventions for prevention and management in Indigenous communities [2015]
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Predictors of antenatal alcohol use among Australian women: a prospective cohort study [2013]
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Invited commentary on Australian fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnostic guidelines [2014]
    • Recommendations from a consensus development workshop on the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Australia [2013]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Drowning our sorrows: clinical and ethical considerations of termination in alcohol-affected pregnancy [2020]
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
    • Australian Guide to the diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) [2016]
    • Alcohol
  • Implementation Science
    • Cost, cost-consequence and cost-effectiveness evaluation of a practice change intervention to increase routine provision of antenatal care addressing maternal alcohol consumption [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence and Patterns of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in Australian Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies: A Systematic Review of Data Collection Approaches [2022]
    • Key Stakeholder Priorities for the Review and Update of the Australian Guide to Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Qualitative Descriptive Study [2022]
  • International Journal of Population Data Science
    • It takes a village: Influencing policy and practice to prevent alcohol use in pregnancy and promote better outcomes for individuals living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder [2022]
    • Community Priority setting for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research in Australia [2020]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • National guidelines on alcohol use during pregnancy: a dissenting opinion [2007]
    • A review of policies on alcohol use during pregnancy in Australia and other English-speaking countries, 2006 [2007]
  • Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: the importance of assessment, diagnosis and support in the Australian justice context [2020]
  • Public Health Research and Practice
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Australia – the future is prevention [2015]
• Brazil
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy, Brazil, 2011-2012 [2023]
• Canada
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • A harmonized analysis of five Canadian pregnancy cohort studies: exploring the characteristics and pregnancy outcomes associated with prenatal alcohol exposure [2023]
  • BMC Public Health
    • The cost-effectiveness of screening tools used in the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a modelled analysis [2019]
    • Population-based prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Canada [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Canadian clinical capacity for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder assessment, diagnosis, disclosure and support to children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study [2022]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Substance Use in Breastfeeding Parents: A Review of Safety and Guidelines [2018]
  • Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
    • Suicidality and Associated Factors Among Individuals Assessed for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Across the Lifespan in Canada [2022]
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): A Policy Perspective [2019]
    • Advocacy-Related Information Distortion: The Case of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2019]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Management of Infants born to Mothers who have used Opioids during Pregnancy [2019]
  • CMAJ
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a guideline for diagnosis across the lifespan [2016]
  • Health
    • ‘Think before you drink’: Challenging narratives on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and indigeneity in Canada [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies [2019]
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
    • Teacher-Reported Prevalence of FASD in Kindergarten in Canada: Association with Child Development and Problems at Home [2021]
  • Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    • Persisting Concerns Regarding the New Canadian FASD Guidelines [2018]
    • A Critique of the New Canadian Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Guideline [2017]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Provincial Guideline for the Clinical Management of High-Risk Drinking and Alcohol [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Canada [2013]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Prevalence of alcohol use among women of reproductive age in Canada [2021]
    • FASD prevalence among children and youth: results from the 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth [2021]
    • Alcohol use during pregnancy and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Canada: who, what, where? [2021]
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Screening and Counselling for Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy [2020]
    • Alcohol Use and Pregnancy Consensus Clinical Guidelines [2017]
  • Women's Health
    • Supportive alcohol policy as a key element of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder prevention [2023]
• Canada, United Kingdom, United States
  • Women's Health
    • Supporting pregnant and parenting women who use alcohol during pregnancy: A scoping review of trauma-informed approaches [2023]
• Canada, United States
  • Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Can We Change the Future? [2020]
  • European Journal of Medical Genetics
    • Prevalence of alcohol consumption during pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders among the general and Aboriginal populations in Canada and the United States [2016]
• Denmark
  • Lancet Public Health
    • Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure and overall morbidities: a Danish nationwide cohort study from 1996 to 2018 [2023]
• Ethiopia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Spatial distribution and determinants of alcohol consumption among pregnant women in Ethiopia: Spatial and multilevel analysis [2022]
• Europe
  • WHO European Region
    • Prevention of harm caused by alcohol exposure in pregnancy: rapid review and case studies from Member States [2016]
• France
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    • The frequency of severe Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in the neonatal period using data from the French hospital discharge database between 2006 and 2013 [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Warning about drinking during pregnancy: lessons from the French experience [2018]
• Germany
  • European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
    • Diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS): German guideline version 2013 [2013]
• High-income countries
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions for pregnant women: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis [2023]
• International
  • Addiction
    • Prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among special subpopulations: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
  • Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
    • Alcohol Use in Pregnancy and Miscarriage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Systematic literature review on which maternal alcohol behaviours are related to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) [2018]
  • Drug and Alcohol Review
    • Why do women consume alcohol during pregnancy or while breastfeeding? [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • The Alcohol Industry and Social Responsibility: Links to FASD [2022]
  • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
    • Screening for Alcohol Use in Pregnancy: a Review of Current Practices and Perspectives [2021]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Estimation of national, regional, and global prevalence of alcohol use during pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
    • The international charter on prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder [2014]
  • Neonatology
    • Ignored Papers, Invented Quotations: A History of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Alcohol’s Impact on the Fetus [2021]
• Israel
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    • Pregnant women’s alcohol consumption and knowledge about its risks: An Israeli survey [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Nutritionists' Practices and Knowledge about the Risks of Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy: An Israeli Survey [2022]
• Japan
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Association between maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and risk of preterm delivery: the Japan Environment and Children's Study [2019]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and Risk of Placental Abnormality: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2019]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Public Health
    • Prevalence and pattern of alcohol consumption during pregnancy in the Netherlands [2015]
• Netherlands, United States
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
    • Effectiveness of Digital Interventions for Preventing Alcohol Consumption in Pregnancy: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Taking Action on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: 2016–2019: An action plan [2016]
    • Taking Action on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): A discussion document [2015]
    • Alcohol and Pregnancy: A practical guide for health professionals [2010]
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
  • Starship
    • Alcohol - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) [2018]
• Norway
  • Scientific Reports
    • Pre-conception and prenatal alcohol exposure from mothers and fathers drinking and head circumference: results from the Norwegian Mother-Child Study (MoBa) [2016]
• PAHO
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Health Services for Hazardous Use of Alcohol and Alcohol Use Disorders: what is the Latest Evidence? [2022]
• Poland
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Is Public Health Response to the Phenomenon of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy Adequate to the Polish Women's Needs? [2022]
    • Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs): Guidelines of Interdisciplinary Group of Polish Professionals [2021]
• Republic of Korea
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Alcohol Use Disorders and Increased Risk of Adverse Birth Complications and Outcomes: An 11-Year Nationwide Cohort Study [2020]
• Russia
  • Alcohol and Alcoholism
    • What Research Is Being Done on Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in the Russian Research Community? [2014]
• South Africa
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • Alcohol ban during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown: Lessons for preventing foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa [2022]
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention in South Africa and Other Low-Resource Countries [2005]
  • Archives of Public Health
    • A pooled prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in South Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol [2021]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • A guideline for the prevention and management of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in South Africa [2019]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Policy Requirements for the Prevention and Management of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in South Africa: A Policy Brief [2021]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • A scoping review of the determinants of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa: an intersectional perspective [2021]
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • To what extent is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder considered in policy-related documents in South Africa? A document review [2019]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Alcohol use during pregnancy and associated factors among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa: further analysis of the recent demographic and health survey data [2022]
  • 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]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Barriers and enablers of implementation of alcohol guidelines with pregnant women: a cross-sectional survey among UK midwives [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Low alcohol consumption and pregnancy and childhood outcomes: time to change guidelines indicating apparently ‘safe’ levels of alcohol during pregnancy? A systematic review and meta-analyses [2017]
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Alcohol Guidelines Review – Report from the Guidelines Development Group to the UK Chief Medical Officers [2016]
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: health needs assessment
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Children and young people exposed prenatally to alcohol [2019]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder [2022]
  • Public Health Scotland
    • Interventions to reduce alcohol consumption during pregnancy [2017]
• United States
  • Advances in Pediatric Research
    • Comparison of the 4-Digit Code, Canadian 2015, Australian 2016 and Hoyme 2016 fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnostic guidelines [2019]
  • Alcohol Research : Current Reviews
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Awareness to Insight in Just 50 Years [2022]
  • Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
    • Development and validation of a postnatal risk score that identifies children with prenatal alcohol exposure [2022]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • The Role of Integrated Care in a Medical Home for Patients With a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder [2018]
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2015]
  • American Family Physician
    • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2017]
  • American Journal of Nursing
    • Addressing Alcohol Use in Pregnancy [2020]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Week-by-week alcohol consumption in early pregnancy and spontaneous abortion risk: A prospective cohort study [2021]
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Trends in Alcohol Use Among Pregnant Women in the U.S., 2011–2018 [2020]
  • Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
    • Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2023]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Alcohol Use, Screening, and Brief Intervention Among Pregnant Persons — 24 U.S. Jurisdictions, 2017 and 2019 [2023]
    • Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking During Pregnancy Among Adults Aged 18–49 Years — United States, 2018–2020 [2022]
    • Alcohol Use and Co-Use of Other Substances Among Pregnant Females Aged 12–44 Years — United States, 2015–2018 [2020]
    • Consumption of Alcohol Beverages and Binge Drinking Among Pregnant Women Aged 18–44 Years — United States, 2015–2017 [2019]
    • Vital Signs: Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies — United States, 2011–2013 [2016]
    • Alcohol Use and Binge Drinking Among Women of Childbearing Age — United States, 2011–2013 [2015]
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
    • Alcohol and Pregnancy
  • Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Alcohol Use in Pregnancy [2019]
  • Current Developmental Disorders Reports
    • Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (ND-PAE): Review of Evidence and Guidelines for Assessment [2015]
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    • Trajectories of prenatal alcohol exposure and behavioral outcomes: Findings from a community-based sample [2022]
    • Racial differences in the relationship between alcohol/pregnancy policies and birth outcomes and prenatal care utilization: A legal epidemiology study [2019]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Trends in Binge Drinking and Heavy Alcohol Consumption Among Pregnant Women in the US, 2011 to 2020 [2022]
  • Journal of Pediatric Health Care
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: What Pediatric Providers Need to Know [2017]
  • Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
    • Variations by education status in relationships between alcohol/pregnancy policies and birth outcomes and prenatal care utilization: a legal epidemiology study [2020]
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Performance Measurement: A Proposal to Increase Use of SBIRT and Decrease Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy [2014]
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
    • Fetal Alcohol Exposure
  • Pediatrics
    • Updated Clinical Guidelines for Diagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [2016]
  • Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
    • Screening and Brief Interventions for Alcohol Use During Pregnancy: Practices Among US Primary Care Clinicians, DocStyles 2019 [2023]
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    • Addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Fetal growth restriction

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
    • Position statement: detection and management of fetal growth restriction in singleton pregnancies [2019]
• Benin
  • PLoS ONE
    • Assessing fetal growth in Africa: Application of the international WHO and INTERGROWTH-21st standards in a Beninese pregnancy cohort [2022]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Fetal Growth Restriction: Screening, Diagnosis, and Management in Singleton Pregnancies [2023]
• China
  • International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
    • Inadequate gestational weight gain and adverse pregnancy outcomes among normal weight women in China [2015]
• Europe
  • Ultraschall in der Medizin
    • Longitudinal Doppler Assessments in Late Preterm Fetal Growth Restriction [2023]
• Germany
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Fetal Growth Restriction – Diagnostic Work-up, Management and Delivery [2020]
    • Intrauterine Growth Restriction. Guideline of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (S2k Level, AWMF Registry No. 015/080, October 2016) [2017]
• International
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Current practice in the diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction: An international survey [2022]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Clinical Opinion: The diagnosis and management of suspected fetal growth restriction: an evidence-based approach [2022]
    • Evidence-based national guidelines for the management of suspected fetal growth restriction: comparison, consensus, and controversy [2018]
  • Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
    • Consensus Definition of Fetal Growth Restriction in Intrauterine Fetal Death: A Delphi Procedure [2021]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) initiative on fetal growth: Best practice advice for screening, diagnosis, and management of fetal growth restriction [2021]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Practice Guidelines: diagnosis and management of small-for-gestational-age fetus and fetal growth restriction [2020]
  • Journal of Mother and Child
    • Is growth restriction in twin pregnancies a double challenge? [2021]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Comparison between Protocols for Management of Fetal Growth Restriction [2023]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Essential variables for reporting research studies on fetal growth restriction: a Delphi consensus [2019]
    • Consensus definition and essential reporting parameters of selective fetal growth restriction in twin pregnancy: a Delphi procedure [2019]
  • Vaccine
    • Small for gestational age: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunisation safety data [2017]
    • Fetal growth restriction: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2017]
• 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]
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Practice variation in diagnosis, monitoring and management of fetal growth restriction in the Netherlands [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Cost-Effectiveness of Routine Third Trimester Ultrasound Screening for Fetal Growth Restriction Compared to Care as Usual in Low-Risk Pregnancies: A Pragmatic Nationwide Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Trial in The Netherlands (the IRIS Study) [2022]
• Nigeria
  • Global Health Action
    • Risk factors for low birth weight in Nigeria: evidence from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey [2016]
• Norway
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Intrauterine growth restriction [2016]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • The Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Guideline for the diagnostic assessment and management of multiple-gestation pregnancy complicated by fetal growth restriction [2022]
    • Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Recommendations on diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Effectiveness of folic acid supplementation in pregnancy on reducing the risk of small-for-gestational age neonates: a population study, systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
  • BMJ Open
    • Small-for-gestational age and large-for-gestational age thresholds to predict infants at risk of adverse delivery and neonatal outcomes: are current charts adequate? An observational study from the Born in Bradford cohort [2015]
• United States
  • American College of Radiology
    • Growth Disturbances–Risk of Fetal Growth Restriction
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #52: Diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Premature infants, low birth weight
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Fetal maturation, antenatal corticosteroids

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Liggins Institute - The University of Auckland
    • Antenatal corticosteroids given to women prior to birth to improve fetal, infant, child and adult health: Clinical Practice Guidelines [2015]
• Brazil
  • Revista Paulista de Pediatria
    • Use of antenatal corticosteroids in Brazil: data analysis from the National Survey Nascer no Brasil [2021]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy for Improving Neonatal Outcomes [2018]
• Canada, United States
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
    • Antenatal Corticosteroid Prophylaxis at Late Preterm Gestation: Clinical Guidelines Versus Clinical Practice [2023]
• Ethiopia
  • Global Pediatric Health
    • Antenatal Steroid Utilization in Ethiopia [2021]
• Europe
  • Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
    • European guidelines on perinatal care: corticosteroids for women at risk of preterm birth [2023]
• Finland
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Antenatal corticosteroid therapy (ACT) and size at birth: A population-based analysis using the Finnish Medical Birth Register [2019]
• France
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Impact of antenatal corticosteroids on head circumference of full-term newborns: A French multicenter cohort study [2020]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Operational Guidelines - Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids in Preterm Labour  [2014]
  • New Indian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Role of Antenatal Corticosteroids in preterm deliveries [2016]
• International
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids in Preterm Small-for-Gestational Age Infants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Antenatal corticosteroids for management of preterm birth: a multi-country analysis of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions [2015]
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth [2020]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO good practice recommendations on the use of prenatal corticosteroids to improve outcomes and minimize harm in babies born preterm [2021]
  • JAMA Pediatrics
    • Evaluation of Long-term Outcomes Associated With Preterm Exposure to Antenatal Corticosteroids: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Antenatal corticosteroids for impending late preterm (34-36+6 weeks) deliveries—A systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs [2021]
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Adverse Maternal and Child Outcomes in Special Populations of Women at Risk of Imminent Preterm Birth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • The global network antenatal corticosteroids trial: impact on stillbirth [2016]
    • The Antenatal Corticosteroids Trial (ACT)’s explanations for neonatal mortality - a secondary analysis [2016]
    • The Antenatal Corticosteroids Trial (ACT): a secondary analysis to explore site differences in a multi-country trial [2016]
  • World Association of Perinatal Medicine
    • The use of antenatal corticosteroids for fetal maturation: clinical practice guideline by the WAPM-World Association of Perinatal Medicine and the PMF-Perinatal Medicine foundation [2022]
• Japan
  • Scientific Reports
    • Antenatal corticosteroids and preterm offspring outcomes in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: A Japanese cohort study [2020]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • Antenatal corticosteroids for early preterm birth: implementation strategy lessons from the WHO ACTION-I trial [2022]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Antenatal dexamethasone for improving preterm newborn outcomes in low-resource countries: a cost-effectiveness analysis of the WHO ACTION-I trial [2022]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Antenatal Dexamethasone for Early Preterm Birth in Low-Resource Countries [2020]
  • 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]
  • Trials
    • The World Health Organization ACTION-I (Antenatal CorTicosteroids for Improving Outcomes in preterm Newborns) Trial: a multi-country, multi-centre, two-arm, parallel, double-blind, placebo-controlled, individually randomized trial of antenatal corticosteroids for women at risk of imminent birth in the early preterm period in hospitals in low-resource countries [2019]
• Republic of Korea
  • BMJ Paediatrics Open
    • Effects of antenatal corticosteroids on neonatal outcomes in twin and singleton pregnancies: a Korean national cohort study [2023]
  • Pediatrics and Neonatology
    • Dose completion of antenatal corticosteroids and neonatal outcomes in non-small-for-gestational age or small-for-gestational age very-low-birthweight infants: A Korean population-based cohort study [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids for Women at Risk of Imminent Preterm Birth in 7 sub-Saharan African Countries: A Policy and Implementation Landscape Analysis [2018]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
    • The gestational effect of antenatal corticosteroids on respiratory distress syndrome in very low birth weight infants: A population-based study [2020]
• Tanzania
  • Ministry of Health Tanzania
    • Administration of Antenatal Corticosteroids in Pre-Term Labour [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Antenatal corticosteroids to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality [2022]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids at 22 Weeks of Gestation [2021]
    • Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy for Fetal Maturation [2017]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Assessing the potential impact of extending antenatal steroids to the late preterm period [2017]
  • American Journal of Perinatology
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids and Preterm Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality among Women with and without Diabetes in Pregnancy [2022]
  • Children
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids: Extending the Practice for Late-Preterm and Scheduled Early-Term Deliveries? [2021]
  • JAMA
    • Association of antenatal corticosteroids with mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes among infants born at 22–25 weeks gestation [2011]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • US Incidence of Late-Preterm Steroid Use and Associated Neonatal Respiratory Morbidity After Publication of the Antenatal Late Preterm Steroids Trial, 2015-2017 [2022]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Association of Antenatal Steroid Exposure at 21 to 22 Weeks of Gestation With Neonatal Survival and Survival Without Morbidities [2022]
    • Optimal timing of antenatal corticosteroid administration and preterm neonatal and early childhood outcomes [2020]
    • Association of Antenatal Corticosteroids and Magnesium Sulfate Therapy With Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Extremely Preterm Children [2020]
    • Discordance in Antenatal Corticosteroid Use and Resuscitation Following Extremely Preterm Birth [2019]
    • Cost-effectiveness of Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy vs No Therapy in Women at Risk of Late Preterm Delivery: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial [2019]
    • Mortality and pulmonary outcomes of extremely preterm infants exposed to antenatal corticosteroids [2018]
    • What we have learned about antenatal corticosteroid regimens [2016]
    • Association of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes and Neonatal Morbidities of Extremely Premature Infants With Differential Exposure to Antenatal Steroids [2016]
    • Association of Antenatal Corticosteroids With Mortality, Morbidity, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Extremely Preterm Multiple Gestation Infants [2016]
    • Association of antenatal corticosteroids with mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes among infants born at 22 to 25 weeks' gestation [2011]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Antenatal Corticosteroids for Women at Risk of Late Preterm Delivery [2016]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Quality metrics for optimal timing of antenatal corticosteroid administration [2022]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #58: Use of antenatal corticosteroids for individuals at risk for late preterm delivery [2021]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO recommendations on antenatal corticosteroids for improving preterm birth outcomes [2022]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Premature labor, preterm delivery
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Newborn respiratory tract diseases

Fetal therapy

• Argentina
  • Archivos argentinos de pediatría
    • Update on prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery for myelomeningocele [2021]
• Asia
  • Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
    • Establishing Prenatal Surgery for Myelomeningocele in Asia: The Singapore Consensus [2017]
• Brazil
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
    • Brazilian Fetal Cardiology Guidelines [2019]
• Canada, United States
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • North American Fetal Therapy Network: Timing of and indications for delivery following laser ablation for twin-twin transfusion syndrome [2019]
  • North American Fetal Therapy Network
    • North American Fetal Therapy Network: Timing of and indications for delivery following laser ablation for twin-twin transfusion syndrome [2019]
• Germany
  • Translational Pediatrics
    • Counseling for fetal heart disease—current standards and best practice [2021]
• International
  • Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
    • A Systematic Review of Benefits and Risks of Fetal Surgery for Congenital Cardiac Defects Such as Pulmonary Valve Stenosis and Critical Aortic Stenosis [2023]
  • Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
    • Fetal surgical intervention for myelomeningocele: lessons learned, outcomes, and future implications [2020]
  • International Fetal Cardiac Invention Registry
    • Fetal Cardiac Intervention for Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum: International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry [2020]
    • Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome With Intact or Restrictive Atrial Septum: A Report From the International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry [2017]
    • International Fetal Cardiac Intervention Registry: A Worldwide Collaborative Description and Preliminary Outcomes [2015]
  • International Fetal Transplantation and Immunology Society
    • Fetal and Maternal Safety Considerations for In Utero Therapy Clinical Trials: iFeTiS Consensus Statement [2020]
    • In Utero Gene Therapy Consensus Statement from the IFeTIS [2019]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Global Policy and Practice for Intrauterine Fetal Resuscitation During Fetal Surgery for Open Spina Bifida Repair [2023]
  • Medicina
    • Myelomeningocele Surgery over the 10 Years Following the MOMS Trial: A Systematic Review of Outcomes in Prenatal versus Postnatal Surgical Repair [2021]
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
    • Fetoscopic myelomeningocoele closure: Is the scientific evidence enough to challenge the gold standard for prenatal surgery? [2021]
  • Translational Pediatrics
    • Modern fetal surgery—a historical review of the happenings that shaped modern fetal surgery and its practices [2021]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Consensus diagnostic criteria and monitoring of twin anemia–polycythemia sequence: Delphi procedure [2020]
    • Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the International Fetoscopic Myelomeningocele Repair Consortium [2019]
    • A worldwide survey of laser surgery for twin–twin transfusion syndrome [2014]
• Italy
  • La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica
    • Guidelines of the Italian Society of Videosurgery in Infancy (SIVI) for the minimally invasive treatment of fetal and neonatal ovarian cysts [2020]
• Japan
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
    • Fetal therapies as standard prenatal care in Japan [2020]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Current views on fetal surgical treatment of myelomeningocele — the Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS) trial and Polish clinical experience [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Open prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus [2020]
    • Fetoscopic prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus [2020]
    • Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty for fetal critical aortic stenosis [2018]
    • Fetal cystoscopy for diagnosis and treatment of lower urinary outflow tract obstruction [2007]
    • Septostomy with or without amnioreduction for the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome [2006]
    • Intrauterine laser ablation of placental vessels for the treatment of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome [2006]
    • Fetal vesico-amniotic shunt for lower urinary tract outflow obstruction [2006]
  • NHS England
    • Prenatal surgery for open spina bifida [2018]
    • Management of Twin to Twin Syndrome by fetoscopic laser ablation [2015]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Maternal–Fetal Surgery for Myelomeningocele [2017]
  • American Heart Association
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Fetal Cardiac Disease [2014]
  • Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases
    • Fetal cardiac interventions: Where do we stand? [2020]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • A Randomized Trial of Prenatal versus Postnatal Repair of Myelomeningocele [2011]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Consensus Statement, Care Levels for Fetal Therapy Centers [2022]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Beyond the scalpel: in utero fetal gene therapy and curative medicine [2021]
    • Twin-twin transfusion syndrome [2013]
  • Spina Bifida Association
    • Prenatal counseling: Guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Newborn
    • Neural tube defects, folic acid

Gestational diabetes

• Africa
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Prevalence and determinants of gestational diabetes mellitus in Africa based on the updated international diagnostic criteria: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
  • International Health
    • Barriers to screening, diagnosis and management of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy in Africa: a systematic review [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Africa: A Systematic Review [2014]
• Asia
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Among Asians - A Systematic Review From a Population Health Perspective [2022]
• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus – negotiating the confusion [2013]
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Incidence of gestational diabetes in Australia [2019]
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus: A pragmatic approach to diagnosis and management [2018]
  • Better Safer Care
    • Gestational diabetes
  • Current Diabetes Reports
    • Counterpoint: Establishing Consensus in the Diagnosis of GDM Following the HAPO Study [2014]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • A Review of the Current Status of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Australia—The Clinical Impact of Changing Population Demographics and Diagnostic Criteria on Prevalence [2020]
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • Implementation of the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Criteria: Not Always a Cause for Concern [2015]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Hyperglycaemia in pregnancy in Australia: screening and diagnosis [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) [2017]
• Austria
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Universal gestational diabetes screening and antepartum stillbirth rates in Austria-A population-based study [2022]
• Austria, Germany, Switzerland
  • 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]
• Bangladesh
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Bangladesh: Findings from Demographic Health Survey 2017-2018 [2022]
• Belgium
  • PLoS ONE
    • Glucose Intolerance after a Recent History of Gestational Diabetes Based on the 2013 WHO Criteria [2016]
• Canada
  • CMAJ
    • The effect of changing screening practices and demographics on the incidence of gestational diabetes in British Columbia, 2005-2019 [2023]
  • Environmental Research
    • Exposure to organophosphorus and organochlorine pesticides, perfluoroalkyl substances, and polychlorinated biphenyls in pregnancy and the association with impaired glucose tolerance and gestational diabetes mellitus: The MIREC Study [2016]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Trends in National Canadian Guideline Recommendations for the Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus over the Years: A Scoping Review [2021]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Diabetes in Pregnancy [2019]
• China
  • BMJ Open
    • The short-term health and economic burden of gestational diabetes mellitus in China: a modelling study [2017]
  • Chronic Diseases and Translational Medicine
    • Diagnosis, prevention and management of gestational diabetes mellitus [2016]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus as an Effect Modifier of the Association of Gestational Weight Gain with Perinatal Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study in China [2022]
    • Prevalence, Prevention, and Lifestyle Intervention of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in China [2020]
  • Journal of Diabetes Investigation
    • The Influence of Different Diagnostic Criteria on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Incidence and Medical Expenditures in China [2019]
    • Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in mainland China: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Croatia
  • Biochemia Medica
    • Redefinition of gestational diabetes mellitus: implications for laboratory practice in Croatia [2013]
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • Impact of the Implementation of New WHO Diagnostic Criteria for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on Prevalence and Perinatal Outcomes: A Population-Based Study [2016]
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prevalence of gestational diabetes in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo [2022]
• Denmark
  • Acta Diabetologica
    • Regional divergence and time trends in the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus: a national Danish cohort study [2023]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Associations between follow-up screening after gestational diabetes and early detection of diabetes – a register based study [2014]
  • Nutrients
    • Diet and Healthy Lifestyle in the Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2020]
• Ethiopia
  • European Journal of Medical Research
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Europe
  • Diabetes Care
    • Applying Current Screening Tools for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus to a European Population: Is It Time for Change? [2013]
  • Diabetic Medicine
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus in Europe: prevalence, current screening practice and barriers to screening. A review [2012]
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Europe: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence Studies [2021]
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Towards a European Consensus on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Pragmatic Guide for Diagnosis, Management, and Care. The Polish Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group and FIGO [2017]
• Europe, United States
  • American Diabetes Association
    • Predictors and risk factors of short-term and long-term outcomes among women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and their offspring: Moving toward precision prognosis? [2023]
• Finland
  • Acta Diabetologica
    • Previous induced abortion or miscarriage is associated with increased odds for gestational diabetes: a nationwide register-based cohort study in Finland [2023]
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus and labor analgesia: nationwide register-based analysis in Finland [2022]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Healthy Food Intake Index (HFII) – Validity and reproducibility in a gestational-diabetes-risk population [2016]
  • Food & Nutrition Research
    • Nutrient intake of pregnant women at high risk of gestational diabetes [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Pregnancy outcomes according to the definition of gestational diabetes [2020]
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Pregnancy Complications in Women With Pregestational and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2023]
  • 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]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Guidelines for the Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2016]
• India
  • Acta Diabetologica
    • Comparison of screening for gestational diabetes mellitus by oral glucose tolerance tests done in the non-fasting (random) and fasting states [2014]
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • The Challenges and Recommendations for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Care in India: A Review [2017]
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Need for testing glucose tolerance in the early weeks of pregnancy [2016]
    • Current practices in the diagnosis and management of gestational diabetes mellitus in India (WINGS-5) [2016]
    • Psychosocial management of diabetes in pregnancy [2013]
    • Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus and its outcome in western Rajasthan [2013]
  • Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
    • Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Where Do We Stand [2016]
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • A step towards real-time implementation of GDM guidelines in India: Review of Gaps in RCH Programme [2020]
  • Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
    • Evaluation of the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in North Indians using the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study groups (IADPSG) criteria [2015]
  • Medicina
    • Negotiating Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in India: A National Approach [2021]
• Indonesia
  • Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies
    • Indonesian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes in Pregnancy [2013]
• International
  • Acta Diabetologica
    • Short-term neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes treated using metformin versus insulin: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [2023]
  • 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]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Community-based non-pharmacological interventions for pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review [2022]
  • BMJ
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus and adverse pregnancy outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • 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 & Metabolism Journal
    • Effect of Different Types of Diagnostic Criteria for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on Adverse Neonatal Outcomes: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression [2022]
  • Diabetes Care
    • Summary and Recommendations of the Fifth International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2007]
  • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    • Increasing prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus when implementing the IADPSG criteria: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
    • An Update on Screening Strategies for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Narrative Review [2021]
  • Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews
    • Maternal metabolic factors and the association with gestational diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Diabetic Medicine
    • Barriers to and enablers of postpartum health behaviours among women from diverse cultural backgrounds with prior gestational diabetes: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis applying the theoretical domains framework [2022]
  • Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
    • The impact of diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes on its prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
  • Drugs in Context
    • A review of current treatment strategies for gestational diabetes mellitus [2015]
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • Association of maternal lipid profile and gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 292 studies and 97,880 women [2021]
  • International Association of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups
    • International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Recommendations on the Diagnosis and Classification of Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy [2010]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Pregnancy as an opportunity to prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus: FIGO Best Practice Advice [2023]
    • Towards a global consensus on GDM diagnosis: Light at the end of the tunnel? [2020]
    • 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 Environmental Research and Public Health
    • A Systematic Review to Compare Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Pregestational Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes [2022]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Updated guidelines on screening for gestational diabetes [2015]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • The Risk for Glucose Intolerance after Gestational Diabetes Mellitus since the Introduction of the IADPSG Criteria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
  • Medicine
    • Effectiveness of five interventions used for prevention of gestational diabetes: A network meta-analysis [2022]
  • Nursing Open
    • Guidelines for the nursing management of gestational diabetes mellitus: An integrative literature review [2019]
  • Nutrients
    • Nutritional and Exercise-Focused Lifestyle Interventions and Glycemic Control in Women with Diabetes in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials [2023]
    • The Carbohydrate Threshold in Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes: How Low Can We Go? [2021]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Risks of specific congenital anomalies in offspring of women with diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies including over 80 million births [2022]
  • 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
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus: An update on the current international diagnostic criteria [2015]
    • 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]
  • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
    • Prevalence of gestational diabetes and its association with stillbirth, preterm birth, macrosomia, abortion and cesarean delivery: a national prevalence study of 11 provinces in Iran [2022]
• 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]
  • Journal of Diabetes Investigation
    • Risk of fetal undergrowth in the management of gestational diabetes mellitus in Japan [2023]
• Jordan
  • Annals of Medicine and Surgery
    • Trends in maternal characteristics, and maternal and neonatal outcomes of women with gestational diabetes: A study from Jordan [2021]
• Mexico
  • Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
    • Screening and management of gestational diabetes in Mexico: results from a survey of multilocation, multi-health care institution practitioners [2018]
• Middle East, North Africa
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the Middle East and North Africa, 2000–2019: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression [2021]
• Morocco
  • Global Health Action
    • Diagnosis a posteriori? Assessing gestational diabetes screening and management in Morocco [2016]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Implementation of a first-trimester prognostic model to improve screening for gestational diabetes mellitus [2021]
• New Zealand
  • BMJ Open
    • Cost-effectiveness of the New Zealand diabetes in pregnancy guideline screening recommendations [2015]
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Screening, Diagnosis and Management of Gestational Diabetes in New Zealand: A clinical practice guideline [2014]
    • Diabetes in Pregnancy [2014]
  • Nutrients
    • Adherence to Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations in Women with Gestational Diabetes and Associations with Maternal and Infant Health-A Cohort Study [2022]
    • Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Adherence to Dietary Guidelines in Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Cohort Study [2021]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Screening and diagnosis of GDM in New Zealand [2018]
• Nigeria
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and determinants of gestational diabetes mellitus in Nigeria [2021]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Identifying women with gestational diabetes based on maternal characteristics: an analysis of four Norwegian prospective studies [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • A Systematic Review of the Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes in Norway [2021]
• Palau
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Assessment of Gestational Diabetes and Associated Risk Factors and Outcomes in the Pacific Island Nation of Palau [2017]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Hyperglycemia in pregnancy - prevalence and perinatal outcomes. A retrospective multicenter cohort study in Poland [2022]
• Qatar
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of newly detected diabetes in pregnancy in Qatar, using universal screening [2018]
• Republic of Korea
  • Diabetes & Metabolism Journal
    • New Diagnostic Criteria for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Pregnancy Outcomes in Korea [2019]
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Korean Women: Similarities and Differences from Other Racial/Ethnic Groups [2014]
  • Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Risk and Risk Factors for Postpartum Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Korean Nationwide Cohort Study [2022]
    • The Clinical Characteristics of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Korea: A National Health Information Database Study [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Korea: A National Health Insurance Database Study [2016]
• Singapore
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Impact of adopting the 2013 World Health Organization criteria for diagnosis of gestational diabetes in a multi-ethnic Asian cohort: a prospective study [2018]
    • Ethnic differences translate to inadequacy of high-risk screening for gestational diabetes mellitus in an Asian population: a cohort study [2014]
• South Africa
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Policies and clinical practices relating to the management of gestational diabetes mellitus in the public health sector, South Africa – a qualitative study [2018]
• South and Southeast Asia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus in south and southeast Asian women with history of gestational diabetes mellitus: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• South Asia
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
    • Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and adverse pregnancy outcome in South Asia: A systematic review [2021]
• South-East Asia
  • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • ILSI Southeast Asia symposium: prevalence, risk factors, and actions to address gestational diabetes in selected Southeast Asian countries [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Southeast Asia: A Scoping Review [2021]
• Sri Lanka
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Comparing Different Diagnostic Guidelines for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Relation to Birthweight in Sri Lankan Women [2018]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Burden, risk factors and maternal and offspring outcomes of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Sweden
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Changing diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes in Sweden - a stepped wedge national cluster randomised controlled trial - the CDC4G study protocol [2019]
    • No consensus on gestational diabetes mellitus screening regimes in Sweden: pregnancy outcomes in relation to different screening regimes 2011 to 2012, a cross-sectional study [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Does gestational diabetes increase the risk of maternal kidney disease? A Swedish national cohort study [2022]
• Switzerland
  • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    • Effect of the IADPSG screening strategy for gestational diabetes on perinatal outcomes in Switzerland [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Trends in epidemiology of hyperglycemia in pregnancy in Taiwan, 2008-2017 [2023]
  • Journal of Diabetes Investigation
    • Increasing trend in the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in Taiwan [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Plasma 25(OH)D Concentrations and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus among Pregnant Women in Taiwan [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Effects of Implementing the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Criteria for Diagnosing Gestational Diabetes on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes [2015]
• United Arab Emirates
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus in the United Arab Emirates; comparison of six diagnostic criteria: The Mutaba'ah Study [2022]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Diabetes screening after gestational diabetes in England: a quantitative retrospective cohort study [2013]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Clinical Implications of the NICE 2015 Criteria for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [2018]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • GDm-Health for people with gestational diabetes [2017]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Gestational diabetes
• United States
  • Advances in Nutrition
    • Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors Associated With Weight Gain and Impaired Glucose Tolerance Among Pregnant Latinas [2012]
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review to Update the 2014 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation [2021]
  • American Diabetes Association
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of participant characteristics in the prevention of gestational diabetes: a summary of evidence for precision medicine [2023]
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Changing patterns in medication prescription for gestational diabetes during a time of guideline change in the USA: a cross-sectional study [2022]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Patterns of gestational diabetes diagnosis inside and outside of clinical guidelines [2017]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Trends and Characteristics in Gestational Diabetes: United States, 2016-2020 [2022]
    • Prevalence and Changes in Preexisting Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes Among Women Who Had a Live Birth — United States, 2012–2016 [2018]
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Prevalence and Trends in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Among Women in the United States, 2006-2017: A Population-Based Study [2022]
  • 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]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Trends, Predictors, and Outcomes of Cardiovascular Complications at Delivery Associated With Gestational Diabetes: A National Inpatient Sample Analysis (2004-2019) [2022]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • What we have learned about treating mild gestational diabetes mellitus [2016]
    • Delivery timing and cesarean delivery risk in women with mild gestational diabetes mellitus [2014]
  • National Institutes of Health
    • NIH consensus development conference: diagnosing gestational diabetes mellitus [2013]
  • 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
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Quality metric on the rate of postpartum diabetes screening after pregnancies with gestational diabetes mellitus [2023]
    • SMFM Statement: Pharmacological treatment of gestational diabetes [2018]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Gestational Diabetes: Screening [2021]
• Vietnam
  • Diabetes Care
    • Early Prediction of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Vietnam [2013]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Classification of diabetes mellitus [2019]
    • Global report on diabetes [2016]
    • Diagnostic criteria and classification of hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy [2013]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Pregnancy in diabetics, pre-existing diabetes
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Hematologic diseases in pregnancy

• Africa
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Thrombocytopenia among pregnant women in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Anaemia in pregnancy [2019]
• Bangladesh
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal anemia and risk of adverse maternal health and birth outcomes in Bangladesh: A nationwide population-based survey [2022]
• China
  • China CDC Weekly
    • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Anemia of Pregnant Women — 6 Provinces in China, 2014-2018 [2020]
  • Chinese Medical Journal
    • 2021 Chinese consensus on the diagnosis and management of primary immune thrombocytopenia in pregnancy [2022]
  • Nutrients
    • Variation Patterns of Hemoglobin Levels by Gestational Age during Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Multi-Center Retrospective Cohort Study in China [2023]
    • Preconception Hemoglobin Concentration and Risk of Low Birth Weight and Small-for-Gestational-Age: A Large Prospective Cohort Study in China [2022]
• Denmark
  • Cancer Epidemiology
    • Maternal anemia and childhood cancer: a population-based case-control study in Denmark [2023]
• East Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among pregnant women in East Africa; A multi-level analysis of recent Demographic and Health Surveys [2021]
• Eswatini
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • Prevalence and associated risk factors for anaemia amongst pregnant women attending three antenatal clinics in Eswatini [2022]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Hematology
    • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among pregnant women in Ethiopia; a systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of anemia status among pregnant women in Ethiopia: using 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data; application of ordinal logistic regression models [2022]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Spatial distribution and trends of anemia among pregnant women in Ethiopia: EDHS 2005-2016 [2023]
  • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
    • Is Indoor Air Pollution From Different Fuel Types Associated With the Anemia Status of Pregnant Women in Ethiopia? [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and predictors of anemia among pregnant women in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
    • 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 [2015]
• Finland
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Gestational anemia and maternal antenatal and postpartum psychological distress in a prospective FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study [2022]
• Ghana
  • PLoS ONE
    • Establishing pregnancy-specific haematological reference intervals in Ghana; a three-center cross-sectional study [2023]
• High-income countries
  • Hematology: the American Society of Hematology Education Program
    • Evidence-based management of pregnant women with sickle cell disease in high-income countries [2022]
• India
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Improving the approach to assess impact of anaemia control programs during pregnancy in India: a critical analysis [2022]
    • Decadal change in the association between the status of young mother's Body Mass Index and anaemia with child low birth weight in India [2022]
  • Cureus
    • Tackling Anemia in Pregnant Women in India: Reviewing the Obstacles and Charting a Path Forward [2023]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Ethical issues in genetic counselling with special reference to haemoglobinopathies [2011]
• International
  • Blood
    • Management of thrombotic microangiopathy in pregnancy and postpartum: report from an international working group [2020]
  • Blood Advances
    • Consensus statement for the perinatal management of patients with a thalassemia major [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal low and high hemoglobin concentrations and associations with adverse maternal and infant health outcomes: an updated global systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • International values for haemoglobin distributions in healthy pregnant women [2020]
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Pregnancy in the Sickle Cell Disease and Fetomaternal Outcomes in Different Sickle cell Genotypes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Association of Maternal Anemia and Cesarean Delivery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
    • Hematologic Malignancies in Pregnancy: Management Guidelines From an International Consensus Meeting [2016]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Risk of maternal mortality in women with severe anaemia during pregnancy and post partum: a multilevel analysis [2018]
  • Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis
    • Patient blood management in obstetrics: management of anaemia and haematinic deficiencies in pregnancy and in the post-partum period: NATA consensus statement [2018]
• Jamaica
  • PLoS ONE
    • Excess Risk of Maternal Death from Sickle Cell Disease in Jamaica: 1998–2007 [2011]
• Kenya
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Mapping of anaemia prevalence among pregnant women in Kenya (2016–2019) [2020]
• Low-income countries
  • Hematology: the American Society of Hematology Education Program
    • Evidence-based obstetric management of women with sickle cell disease in low-income countries [2022]
• Mozambique, Portugal
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Anemia in Pregnant Women and Children Aged 6 to 59 Months Living in Mozambique and Portugal: An Overview of Systematic Reviews [2022]
• South Africa
  • Systematic Reviews
    • The prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of anaemia in South African pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Prevalence and determinants of Anemia among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and Meta-analysis [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Interbirth interval and maternal anaemia in 21 sub-Saharan African countries: A fractional-polynomial analysis [2022]
• Tanzania
  • Nutrition Journal
    • High burden of anemia among pregnant women in Tanzania: a call to address its determinants [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Management of sickle cell disease in pregnancy. A British Society for Haematology Guideline [2021]
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute myeloid leukaemia in pregnancy [2015]
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Pregnancy and Newborn Screening: Haemoglobinopathies in Pregnancy Standards [2019]
  • NHS England
    • SCT screening: handbook for antenatal laboratories
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Management of Women with Red Cell Antibodies during Pregnancy [2014]
    • Management of Beta Thalassaemia in Pregnancy [2014]
    • Sickle Cell Disease in Pregnancy, Management of [2011]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Sickle cell and thalassaemia
    • Anaemia
• United Kingdom, United States
  • 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
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Hemoglobinopathies in Pregnancy [2022]
  • 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]
  • Hematology: the American Society of Hematology Education Program
    • Thrombocytopenia in pregnancy [2022]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Sickle Cell Disease in the National Inpatient Sample, 2012-2018 [2023]
    • Comparisons of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Other Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Pregnant People With Sickle Cell Disease vs Anemia [2023]
  • Therapeutic Advances in Hematology
    • Thrombopoietin receptor agonist for treatment of immune thrombocytopenia in pregnancy: a narrative review [2021]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Prevalence of anaemia in pregnant women (aged 15-49) (%)
    • Number of pregnant women (aged 15-49 years) with anaemia (thousands)
    • Mean hemoglobin level of pregnant women (aged 15-49 years)
• {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 and Aged Care
    • Anaemia
  • Nutrients
    • Are Pregnant Women Who Are Living with Overweight or Obesity at Greater Risk of Developing Iron Deficiency/Anaemia? [2021]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The use of intravenous iron in pregnancy: for whom and when? A survey of Australian and New Zealand obstetricians [2020]
• Austria
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Diagnosis and Therapy of Iron Deficiency Anemia During Pregnancy: Recommendation of the Austrian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (OEGGG) [2022]
• Bangladesh
  • Nutrients
    • What Makes Bangladeshi Pregnant Women More Compliant to Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey Result [2023]
• Brazil
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • The Prevalence of Nutritional Anaemia in Brazilian Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Screening and Treatment of Obstetric Anemia: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prevalence of anemia and iron deficiency anemia in Chinese pregnant women (IRON WOMEN): a national cross-sectional survey [2020]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Anaemia and iron deficiency in pregnancy and postpartum [2016]
• Ethiopia
  • Advances in Preventive Medicine
    • Compliance to Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation and Its Association with the Number of ANC Visits in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Individual and contextual-level factors associated with iron-folic acid supplement intake during pregnancy in Ethiopia: a multi-level analysis [2023]
    • Adherence to iron-folic acid supplementation among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
    • Differences in spatial distributions of iron supplementation use among pregnant women and associated factors in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2011 national population based survey [2017]
  • Heliyon
    • Individual and community-level determinants of Iron-Folic Acid Intake for the recommended period among pregnant women in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Adherence of iron and folic acid supplementation and determinants among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Europe
  • Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
    • Dietary Iron Intake in Pregnant Women in Europe: A Review of 24 Studies from 14 Countries in the Period 1991–2014 [2020]
• France
  • Women's Health
    • Assessment of Iron Deficiency and Anemia in Pregnant Women: An Observational French Study [2016]
• India
  • Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
    • Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy [2017]
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • Comparison of different doses of daily iron supplementation for anemia prophylaxis in pregnancy: A systematic review [2020]
• Indonesia
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Nutritional contributors to maternal anemia in Indonesia: Chronic energy deficiency and micronutrients [2020]
  • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
    • Probability of non-compliance to the consumption of Iron Tablets in pregnant women in Indonesia [2022]
• International
  • Current Opinion in Anesthesiology
    • Current concepts in preoperative anemia management in obstetrics [2023]
  • Lancet Haematology
    • Iron (Fe) preparations for women of Reproductive age with Iron Deficiency Anaemia in pregnancy: FRIDA, a systematic review and network meta-analysis [2021]
• Latvia
  • Medicina
    • Iron Status in Pregnant Women in Latvia: An Epidemiological, Cross-Sectional, Multicenter Study According to WHO and UK Criteria [2022]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Current levels of coverage of iron and folic acid fortification are insufficient to meet the recommended intake for women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries [2021]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Antenatal care is associated with adherence to iron supplementation among pregnant women in selected low-middle-income-countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America & the Caribbean regions: Insights from Demographic and Health Surveys [2023]
  • Nutrients
    • Reducing the Burden of Anemia and Neural Tube Defects in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis to Identify Countries with an Immediate Potential to Benefit from Large-Scale Mandatory Fortification of Wheat Flour and Rice [2021]
• Malawi
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
    • Examining the Role of Health Facilities in Supporting Iron Folic Acid Supplementation Adherence Among Women in Malawi (OR25-03-19) [2019]
• Nepal
  • Journal of Nutrition
    • Antenatal Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation Reduces Neonatal and Under-5 Mortality in Nepal [2015]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • A review of the maternal iron and folic acid supplementation programme in Nepal: Achievements and challenges [2022]
• Nigeria
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Factors associated with compliance to recommended micronutrients uptake for prevention of anemia during pregnancy in urban, peri-urban, and rural communities in Southeast Nigeria [2016]
  • Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice
    • Iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy in Nigeria—A systematic review [2020]
• Norway
  • Journal of Nutritional Science
    • Prevalence of postpartum anaemia and iron deficiency by serum ferritin, soluble transferrin receptor and total body iron, and associations with ethnicity and clinical factors: a Norwegian population-based cohort study [2022]
• Pakistan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Predictors of iron consumption for at least 90 days during pregnancy: Findings from National Demographic Health Survey, Pakistan (2017–2018) [2021]
• Philippines
  • Nutrients
    • Factors Influencing the Compliance of Pregnant Women with Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation in the Philippines: 2017 Philippine Demographic and Health Survey Analysis [2021]
• Portugal
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Oral Iron Supplementation in Pregnancy: Current Recommendations and Evidence-Based Medicine [2021]
• Singapore
  • BMC Public Health
    • Iron status and risk factors of iron deficiency among pregnant women in Singapore: a cross-sectional study [2019]
• Spain
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Applying reflective multicriteria decision analysis to understand the value of therapeutic alternatives in the management of gestational and peripartum anaemia in Spain [2022]
• Sri Lanka
  • BMJ Global Health
    • The need for standard definitions in global data comparison: lessons from studying the prevalence of anaemia during pregnancy in Sri Lanka [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Iron supplementation and deworming during pregnancy reduces the risk of anemia and stunting in infants less than 2 years of age: a study from Sub-Saharan Africa [2023]
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
    • Adherence to Iron Supplementation in 22 Sub-Saharan African Countries and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women: A Large Population-Based Study [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Compliance with Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (IFAS) and associated factors among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• Taiwan
  • Nutrients
    • Associations of Dietary Patterns and Vitamin D Levels with Iron Status in Pregnant Women: A Cross-Sectional Study in Taiwan [2023]
    • Associations of Food and Nutrient Intake with Serum Hepcidin and the Risk of Gestational Iron-Deficiency Anemia among Pregnant Women: A Population-Based Study [2021]
• Tanzania
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Factors Associated With Uptake of Iron Supplement During Pregnancy Among Women of Reproductive Age in Tanzania: an Analysis of Data From the 2015 to 2016 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicators Survey [2021]
• Turkey
  • Turkish Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy and the postpartum period: Iron deficiency anemia working group consensus report [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Screening for iron deficiency and iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy: a structured review and gap analysis against UK national screening criteria [2015]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • UK guidelines on the management of iron deficiency in pregnancy [2020]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Routine Iron Supplementation and Screening for Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women [2015]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Anemia Among Pregnant Women Participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children — United States, 2008–2018 [2022]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnant Women: Screening and Supplementation [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Improving antenatal iron-containing supplementation indicators: a report on key informant interviews, an online survey and DHS data analyses [2020]
    • Developing and validating an iron and folic acid supplementation indicator for tracking progress towards global nutrition monitoring framework targets: final report June 2018 [2018]
    • Guideline: Iron supplementation in postpartum women [2016]
    • Guideline: daily iron and folic acid supplementation in pregnant women [2012]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy

Kidney diseases in pregnancy

• Africa
  • Journal of Nephrology
    • Pregnancy-related acute kidney injury in the African continent: where do we stand? A systematic review [2022]
• Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and the recent increase in obstetric acute renal failure in Canada: population based retrospective cohort study [2014]
• China
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Epidemiology of acute kidney injury in hospitalized pregnant women in China [2019]
  • Chinese Medical Journal
    • Surgical interventions for symptomatic urinary stones during pregnancy [2021]
  • Internal Medicine
    • Pregnancy-related Acute Kidney Injury and a Review of the Literature in China [2015]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Urological diseases and pregnancy [2019]
    • Chronic renal diseases and pregnancy [2019]
• India
  • Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
    • Changing epidemiology of acute kidney injury in pregnancy: A journey of four decades from a developing country [2019]
• International
  • Clinical Transplantation
    • Acute kidney injury during pregnancy in kidney transplant recipients [2022]
  • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Nutrition care for chronic kidney disease during pregnancy: an updated review [2020]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • The Changing Landscape of Acute Kidney Injury in Pregnancy from an Obstetrics Perspective [2019]
  • Medicine
    • Incidence of acute kidney injury during pregnancy and its prognostic value for adverse clinical outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
    • Staging pregnancy-related acute kidney injury according to Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes guidelines: what are the barriers? [2021]
• Italy
  • Journal of Nephrology
    • A best-practice position statement on pregnancy after kidney transplantation: focusing on the unsolved questions. The Kidney and Pregnancy Study Group of the Italian Society of Nephrology [2018]
    • 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]
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
    • Adding creatinine to routine pregnancy tests: a decision tree for calculating the cost of identifying patients with CKD in pregnancy [2023]
• Japan
  • Endocrine Journal
    • Pregnancy-associated diabetes insipidus in Japan—a review based on quoting from the literatures reported during the period from 1982 to 2019 [2021]
• Netherlands
  • Kidney International
    • A nationwide Dutch cohort study shows relatively good pregnancy outcomes after kidney transplantation and finds risk factors for adverse outcomes [2022]
• Sweden
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Pregnancy outcomes in women with chronic kidney disease and chronic hypertension: a National cohort study [2021]
  • Journal of Nephrology
    • Pregnancy outcomes in women with immunoglobulin A nephropathy: a nationwide population-based cohort study [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Clinical practice guideline on pregnancy and renal disease [2019]
• United States
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
    • Renal Disorders in Pregnancy: Core Curriculum 2019 [2019]
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
    • Pregnancy outcomes in women on hemodialysis: a national survey [2017]
  • Frontiers in Surgery
    • Management of Nephrolithiasis in Pregnancy: Multi-Disciplinary Guidelines From an Academic Medical Center [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Maternal mortality and morbidity

• Afghanistan
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • National and sub-national analysis of the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of strategies to reduce maternal mortality in Afghanistan [2013]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Achieving maternal and child health gains in Afghanistan: a Countdown to 2015 country case study [2016]
• Africa
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Skilled Health Personnel Attended Delivery as a Proxy Indicator for Maternal and Perinatal Mortality: A Systematic Review [2014]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Maternal Mortality in Africa: Regional Trends (2000-2017) [2022]
• Americas
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Plan of action to accelerate the reduction of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity: monitoring and evaluation strategy [2012]
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Maternal deaths
  • O&G Magazine
    • Monitoring maternal mortality and morbidity in Australia [2018]
• Bangladesh
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Maternal mortality in Bangladesh: Who, when, why, and where? A national survey-based analysis [2023]
    • Levels, trends, causes, place and time of, care-seeking for, and barriers in preventing indirect maternal deaths in Bangladesh: An analysis of national-level household surveys [2023]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Reducing Maternal Mortality and Improving Maternal Health: Bangladesh and MDG 5 [2008]
• Botswana
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • A root-cause analysis of maternal deaths in Botswana: towards developing a culture of patient safety and quality improvement [2014]
• Brazil
  • BMC Medicine
    • Long-term impact of a conditional cash transfer programme on maternal mortality: a nationwide analysis of Brazilian longitudinal data [2021]
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Estimation of maternal mortality rates in Brazil, 2008-2011 [2014]
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Will Brazil comply with the SDG 3.1 of the 2030 Agenda? An analysis of maternal mortality, from 1996 to 2018 [2021]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Association of Conditional Cash Transfers With Maternal Mortality Using the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort [2023]
  • Jornal de Pediatria
    • Temporal and spatial evolution of maternal and neonatal mortality rates in Brazil, 1997–2012 [2016]
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
    • Usefulness of the Hospital Information System for maternal mortality surveillance in Brazil [2023]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Temporal Trend of Near Miss and its Regional Variations in Brazil from 2010 to 2018 [2021]
  • Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
    • Maternal Mortality in Brazil, 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [2022]
• Burundi
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality in rural Africa: an experience from Burundi [2013]
• Canada
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
    • Database Autopsy: An Efficient and Effective Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths in Canada [2021]
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
    • Severe maternal morbidity surveillance: Monitoring pregnant women at high risk for prolonged hospitalisation and death [2020]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity in Canada: Temporal Trends and Regional Variations, 2003-2016 [2019]
• China
  • BioMed Research International
    • Provincial Maternal Mortality Surveillance Systems in China [2014]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Risk management of pregnant women and the associated low maternal mortality from 2008-2017 in China: a national longitude study [2022]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal health services utilization and maternal mortality in China: a longitudinal study from 2009 to 2016 [2020]
  • BMC Public Health
    • The trends of maternal mortality ratios and cause pattern in 34 Chinese provinces, 1990-2017 [2022]
    • Maternal mortality ratio in China from 1990 to 2019: trends, causes and correlations [2021]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Reducing maternal mortality in China in the era of the two-child policy [2020]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Spatiotemporal trends and ecological determinants in maternal mortality ratios in 2,205 Chinese counties, 2010–2013: A Bayesian modelling analysis [2020]
• Denmark
  • Danish Medical Journal
    • Reduction in maternal mortality in Denmark over three decades [2021]
    • An audit of 70 maternal deaths [2021]
• Developing countries
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness (BPCR) interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis [2014]
  • World Health Organization
    • Education and severe maternal outcomes in developing countries: a multicountry cross-sectional survey [2014]
• Dominican Republic
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Examining the Role of Quality of Institutionalized Healthcare on Maternal Mortality in the Dominican Republic [2023]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • 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 Health Services Research
    • Health system readiness to manage maternal death data and avail evidence for decision-making through the Maternal Death Surveillance System in Ethiopia, 2020 [2023]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Trends and causes of maternal mortality in Ethiopia during 1990–2013: findings from the Global Burden of Diseases study 2013 [2017]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Prevalence and determinants of maternal near miss in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2015-2023 [2023]
  • BMJ Open
    • Place of death and associated factors among reviewed maternal deaths in Ethiopia: a generalised structural equation modelling [2023]
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Review of Maternal Mortality in Ethiopia: A Story of the Past 30 Years [2014]
    • Reasons for Persistently High Maternal and Perinatal Mortalities in Ethiopia: Part II-So-Socio-Economic and Cultural Factors [2014]
    • Commentary: Reasons for Persistently High Maternal and Perinatal Mortalities in Ethiopia: Part III-Perspective of the “Three Delays” Model [2014]
    • Commentary: Actions in the Pipeline and the Way Forward to Reduce Maternal and Perinatal Mortality in Ethiopia [2014]
    • Causes of Maternal Mortality in Ethiopia: A Significant Decline in Abortion Related Death [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Critical factors associated with postpartum maternal death in Ethiopia [2022]
    • Area of focus to handle delays related to maternal death in Ethiopia [2022]
    • Age, period and cohort analysis of age-specific maternal mortality trend in Ethiopia: A secondary analysis [2020]
  • Women's Health
    • Ethiopia's commitment towards achieving sustainable development goal on reduction of maternal mortality: There is a long way to go [2021]
• Europe
  • BMJ
    • Maternal mortality in eight European countries with enhanced surveillance systems: descriptive population based study [2022]
  • Euro-Peristat
    • What about the mothers? An analysis of maternal mortality and morbidity in perinatal health surveillance systems in Europe [2012]
  • WHO European Region
    • Maternal mortality: Fact sheet
    • Maternal deaths per 100 000 live births according to clinical data
• France
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Maternal sudden death: A nationwide retrospective study [2023]
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
    • Antepartum severe maternal morbidity: A population-based study of risk factors and delivery outcomes [2022]
• Georgia
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Maternal Mortality in Georgia: Incidence, Causes and Level of Underreporting: A National Reproductive Age Mortality Study 2014 [2020]
  • Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Scoping maternal care through the lens of maternal deaths: A retrospective analysis of maternal mortality in Georgia [2020]
• Ghana
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Millennium development Goal 5: progress and challenges in reducing maternal deaths in Ghana [2016]
• Hong Kong
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Characteristics of Maternal Mortality Missed by Vital Statistics in Hong Kong, 2000-2019 [2023]
• India
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Trends in maternal mortality in India over two decades in nationally representative surveys [2022]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Maternal near miss events in India [2021]
• Indonesia
  • Global Health Action
    • Relating the construction and maintenance of maternal ill-health in rural Indonesia [2012]
  • Population Health Metrics
    • The impact of family planning on maternal mortality in Indonesia: what future contribution can be expected? [2021]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The human right to safely give birth: data from 193 countries show that gender equality does affect maternal mortality [2022]
    • 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
    • A systematic review of individual and ecological determinants of maternal mortality in the world based on the income level of countries [2022]
    • Advancing maternal survival in the global context: are our strategies working? [2013]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Global and regional estimates of maternal near miss: a systematic review, meta-analysis and experiences with application [2022]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Galvanizing Collective Action to Accelerate Reductions in Maternal and Newborn Mortality and Prevention of Stillbirths [2021]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Thinking beyond maternal mortality: Re-conceptualizing and measuring maternal morbidity [2018]
  • JBI Evidence Synthesis
    • Timing of maternal mortality and severe morbidity during the postpartum period: a systematic review [2022]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Recommendations for refining key maternal health policy and finance indicators to strengthen a framework for monitoring the Strategies toward Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) [2021]
  • Journal of Perinatal Medicine
    • Why maternal mortality in the world remains tragedy in low-income countries and shame for high-income ones: will sustainable development goals (SDG) help? [2022]
  • Lancet
    • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 [2016]
  • New England Journal of Medicine
    • Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health — So Near and Yet So Far [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Monitoring maternal near miss/severe maternal morbidity: A systematic review of global practices [2020]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Towards elimination of maternal deaths: maternal deaths surveillance and response [2013]
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Obstetric transition in the World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health: exploring pathways for maternal mortality reduction [2015]
  • Statistics in Medicine
    • Estimating misclassification errors in the reporting of maternal mortality in national civil registration vital statistics systems: A Bayesian hierarchical bivariate random walk model to estimate sensitivity and specificity for multiple countries and years with missing data [2022]
  • Statistics, Politics and Policy
    • A New Method for Deriving Global Estimates of Maternal Mortality [2012]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Monitoring maternal and newborn health outcomes globally: a brief history of key events and initiatives [2019]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Maternal mortality
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • The Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Case Studies on Strengthening Midwifery Services to Avert Maternal and Newborn Deaths [2019]
  • Vaccine
    • Maternal death: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data [2016]
• Iran
  • Reproductive Health
    • Determinants and causes of maternal mortality in Iran based on ICD-MM: a systematic review [2019]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Bereavement Care Following Maternal Death Within a Hospital Setting [2017]
    • Guidelines for the Critically Ill Woman in Obstetrics [2014]
• Italy
  • Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
    • The way to move beyond the numbers: the lesson learnt from the Italian Obstetric Surveillance System [2019]
• Japan
  • BMJ Open
    • Current status of pregnancy-related maternal mortality in Japan: a report from the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee in Japan [2016]
• Kenya
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Cost of maternal near miss and potentially life-threatening conditions, Kenya [2021]
• Laos
  • Nagoya Journal of Medical Science
    • Improving the maternal mortality rate in Lao PDR: 10 years after the publication of the Yang Ye paper in the Nagoya Journal of Medical Science [2023]
• Latin America
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Predicting severe maternal outcomes in a network of sentinel sites in Latin-American countries [2023]
  • 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
    • Recommendations for Establishing a National Maternal Near-miss Surveillance System in Latin America and the Caribbean [2022]
    • Reproductive Health and Healthy Motherhood. Aligning National Legislation with International Human Rights Law [2014]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Risk factors for postpartum maternal mortality and hospital readmission in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2023]
    • 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]
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal death surveillance efforts: notification and review coverage rates in 30 low-income and middle-income countries, 2015-2019 [2023]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response: a systematic review of qualitative studies [2023]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Estimating the global impact of poor quality of care on maternal and neonatal outcomes in 81 low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Quality of medicines for life-threatening pregnancy complications in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2020]
    • 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]
  • Population Health Metrics
    • A comparison of approaches to measuring maternal mortality in Bangladesh, Mozambique, and Bolivia [2022]
  • Reproductive Health
    • The relationship between birth intervals and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes in six low and lower-middle income countries [2020]
    • Maternal mortality in six low and lower-middle income countries from 2010 to 2018: risk factors and trends [2020]
• Malawi
  • BMC Medical Research Methodology
    • Easier said than done!: methodological challenges with conducting maternal death review research in Malawi [2014]
• Mexico
  • PLoS ONE
    • Towards an Inclusive and Evidence-Based Definition of the Maternal Mortality Ratio: An Analysis of the Distribution of Time after Delivery of Maternal Deaths in Mexico, 2010-2013 [2016]
• Middle East, North Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal mortality in the Middle East and North Africa region - how could countries move towards obstetric transition stage 5? [2022]
• Middle-income countries
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Maternal mortality: near-miss events in middle-income countries, a systematic review [2021]
• Moldova
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • The Moldovan experience of maternal death reviews [2014]
• Morocco
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Actions on social determinants and interventions in primary health to improve mother and child health and health equity in Morocco [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Determinants of Maternal Near-Miss in Morocco: Too Late, Too Far, Too Sloppy? [2015]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Preventable maternal mortality in Morocco: the role of hospitals [2013]
    • Implementing a maternal mortality surveillance system in Morocco [2013]
• Mozambique
  • PLoS ONE
    • Mapping maternal mortality rate via spatial zero-inflated models for count data: A case study of facility-based maternal deaths from Mozambique [2018]
• Myanmar
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • New Politics, an Opportunity for Maternal Health Advancement in Eastern Myanmar: An Integrative Review [2014]
• Nepal
  • PLoS ONE
    • An Analysis of Factors Linked to the Decline in Maternal Mortality in Nepal [2014]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Policies and actions to reduce maternal mortality in Nepal: perspectives of key informants [2021]
• New Zealand
  • BMJ Open
    • Under-reporting of maternal and perinatal adverse events in New Zealand [2015]
• Nigeria
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Application of maternal near-miss approach to audits of severe maternal complications in a low-resource country [2019]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Poverty and maternal mortality in Nigeria: towards a more viable ethics of modern medical practice [2008]
  • Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice
    • Reducing maternal deaths in a low resource setting in Nigeria [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The influence of the social and cultural environment on maternal mortality in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2013 demographic and health survey [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Maternal death and obstetric care audits in Nigeria: a systematic review of barriers and enabling factors in the provision of emergency care [2016]
• North Korea
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • The Current Status in Obstetrics in North Korea and Strategies for Establishing a Better Healthcare System [2021]
• Pakistan
  • Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
    • Issues of maternal health in Pakistan: trends towards millennium development goal 5 [2014]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Why are the Pakistani maternal, fetal and newborn outcomes so poor compared to other low and middle-income countries? [2020]
• Republic of Korea
  • Reproductive Health
    • Comparison of global indicators for severe maternal morbidity among South Korean women who delivered from 2003 to 2018: a population-based retrospective cohort study [2022]
• Rwanda
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal death audit in Rwanda 2009–2013: a nationwide facility-based retrospective cohort study [2016]
  • Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
    • Factors That Affect Maternal Mortality in Rwanda: A Comparative Study with India and Bangladesh [2022]
• Saudi Arabia
  • BMJ Open Quality
    • Collaborative improvement project to decrease maternal mortality rate across five hospitals in Saudi Arabia [2022]
• 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]
• Sierra Leone
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Child, maternal, and adult mortality in Sierra Leone: nationally representative mortality survey 2018-20 [2022]
• 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 African Medical Journal
    • Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study [2022]
• South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Direct maternal morbidity and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: A population-based prospective cohort study in 8 countries [2021]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO South-East Asia Region
    • Towards maternal and newborn survival in the WHO South-East Asia Region: Implementation experience of the WHO SEARO model of point-of-care quality improvement (POCQI) [2020]
    • 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]
• Spain
  • BMC Public Health
    • Maternal mortality trends in Spain during the 2000-2018 period: the role of maternal origin [2022]
• Sri Lanka
  • Reproductive Health
    • Maternal mortality revisited: the application of the new ICD-MM classification system in reference to maternal deaths in Sri Lanka [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Systematic review of the magnitude and case fatality ratio for severe maternal morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa between 1995 and 2010 [2011]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Causes of maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review of studies published from 2015 to 2020 [2021]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Women's risk of death beyond 42 days post partum: a pooled analysis of longitudinal Health and Demographic Surveillance System data in sub-Saharan Africa [2022]
• Suriname
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal mortality audit in Suriname between 2010 and 2014, a reproductive age mortality survey [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Classifying maternal deaths in Suriname using WHO ICD-MM: different interpretation by Physicians, National and International Maternal Death Review Committees [2021]
    • Childbirth outcomes and ethnic disparities in Suriname: a nationwide registry-based study in a middle-income country [2020]
• Sweden
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Maternal mortality in Sweden 1988–2007: more deaths than officially reported [2013]
• Taiwan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal Mortality in Taiwan: A Nationwide Data Linkage Study [2015]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Pregnancy-associated mortality in Taiwan, 2004–2011 [2016]
    • Underreporting of maternal mortality in Taiwan: A data linkage study [2015]
• Tanzania
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of maternal and perinatal death reviews in Tanzania: perceptions, processes and practice [2014]
• Thailand
  • Population Health Metrics
    • Improving the measurement of maternal mortality in Thailand using multiple data sources [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Anaesthesia
    • Severe maternal morbidity in Scotland [2022]
  • 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]
  • NIHR Journals Library
    • Beyond maternal death: improving the quality of maternal care through national studies of ‘near-miss’ maternal morbidity [2016]
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
    • A national population-based cohort study to investigate inequalities in maternal mortality in the United Kingdom, 2009-17 [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Establishing a National Maternal Morbidity Outcome Indicator in England: A Population-Based Study Using Routine Hospital Data [2016]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Understanding the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Maternal Mortality [2022]
• United States
  • AJP Reports
    • Implementing Obstetric Early Warning Systems [2018]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity: Screening and Review [2016]
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
    • Rural-Urban Differences in Maternal Mortality Trends in the United States, 1999-2017: Accounting for the Impact of the Pregnancy Status Checkbox [2022]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Maternal mortality in the United States: research gaps, opportunities, and priorities [2020]
    • Putting the “M” back in maternal-fetal medicine: A 5-year report card on a collaborative effort to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States [2019]
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the United States Using Enhanced Vital Records, 2016-2017 [2021]
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
    • Initiatives to Reduce Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States: A Narrative Review [2020]
  • Annual Review of Medicine
    • Maternal Mortality in the United States: Trends and Opportunities for Prevention [2023]
  • BMC Public Health
    • The public health exposome and pregnancy-related mortality in the United States: a high-dimensional computational analysis [2022]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2020 [2022]
    • The Impact of the Pregnancy Checkbox and Misclassification on Maternal Mortality Trends in the United States, 1999-2017 [2020]
    • Vital Signs: Pregnancy-Related Deaths, United States, 2011–2015, and Strategies for Prevention, 13 States, 2013–2017 [2019]
    • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths — United States, 2007–2016 [2019]
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States
    • Preventing Pregnancy-Related Deaths
    • Pregnancy-related Deaths
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Developmental Origins of Pregnancy-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Black U.S. Women [2022]
  • International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS
    • Trends and Social Inequalities in Maternal Mortality in the United States, 1969-2018 [2021]
    • Trends and Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Geographic Disparities in Maternal Mortality from Indirect Obstetric Causes in the United States, 1999-2017 [2021]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Trends and Distribution of In-Hospital Mortality Among Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals by Pregnancy Period [2022]
    • Assessment of Incidence and Factors Associated With Severe Maternal Morbidity After Delivery Discharge Among Women in the US [2021]
  • Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
    • Economic burden of maternal mortality in the USA, 2018-2020 [2022]
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • U.S. Maternal Mortality Within a Global Context: Historical Trends, Current State, and Future Directions [2021]
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
    • Advancing Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Proceedings of a Workshop [2021]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Frequency of and factors associated with severe maternal morbidity [2014]
  • Neoreviews
    • Maternal Mortality in the United States: Updates on Trends, Causes, and Solutions [2019]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Maternal Mortality in the United States: Recent Trends, Current Status, and Future Considerations [2021]
    • Social Determinants of Pregnancy-Related Mortality and Morbidity in the United States: A Systematic Review [2020]
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Among Indigenous Women in the United States [2020]
    • Standardized Severe Maternal Morbidity Review [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Improving US maternal mortality reporting by analyzing literal text on death certificates, United States, 2016-2017 [2020]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #55: Counseling women at increased risk of maternal morbidity and mortality [2021]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #54: Assessing the risk of maternal morbidity and mortality [2021]
    • Reproductive services for women at high risk for maternal mortality: a report of the workshop [2020]
    • SMFM Special Report: Putting the “M” back in MFM: Addressing education about disparities in maternal outcomes and care [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2020: estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division [2023]
    • Maternal mortality measurement: guidance to improve national reporting [2022]
    • Maternal and perinatal death and surveillance and response [2021]
    • Implementation of maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response as part of quality of care efforts for maternal and newborn health: considerations for synergy and alignment [2021]
    • 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]
    • Targets and strategies for ending preventable maternal mortality: consensus statement [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]
    • Evaluating the quality of care for severe pregnancy complications: the WHO near-miss approach for maternal health [2011]
    • Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000-2010) with country profiles: taking stock of maternal, newborn and child survival [2010]
    • Achieving millennium development goal 5: target 5A and 5B on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health [2009]
    • Beyond the numbers : reviewing maternal deaths and complications to make pregnancy safer [2004]
    • SDG Target 3.1 Maternal mortality
    • Maternal mortality: Fact sheet
    • Maternal mortality country profiles
    • Maternal mortality (Global Health Observatory)
    • Maternal deaths
    • Maternal and newborn data
    • Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response
    • Maternal Mortality in 2030
    • Ending preventable maternal mortality (EPMM)
• 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]
• Zimbabwe
  • BMC Public Health
    • Changes in causes of pregnancy-related and maternal mortality in Zimbabwe 2007-08 to 2018-19: findings from two reproductive age mortality surveys [2022]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data [2022]
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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]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Factors associated with age-specific maternal health-seeking behaviours among women: A Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey-based study in 10 African countries [2022]
• Albania
  • PLoS ONE
    • Quality of Maternal and Neonatal Care in Albania, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan: A Systematic, Standard-Based, Participatory Assessment [2011]
• Angola
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Association between the quality of care and continuous maternal and child health service utilisation in Angola: Longitudinal data analysis [2023]
• Australia
  • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
    • The role of Australian clinical quality registries in pregnancy care: A scoping review [2022]
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Maternity care in Australia: first national report on models of care, 2021 [2021]
    • National Core Maternity Indicators
  • Better Safer Care
    • Maternity and newborn services user guide
  • Midwifery
    • Maternal residential area effects on preterm birth, low birth weight and caesarean section in Australia: A systematic review [2023]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Maternity shared care
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Obstetric and Gynaecology Services in Rural and Remote Regions in Australia [2020]
  • 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]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Maternal suitability for models of care and indications for referral within and between models of care [2018]
• Azerbaijan
  • BioMed Research International
    • The Effect of Maternal Healthcare on the Probability of Child Survival in Azerbaijan [2014]
• Bangladesh
  • BioMed Research International
    • Socioeconomic correlates of Adequate Maternal Care in Bangladesh: Analysis of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18 [2022]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Perceptions of health care providers and patients on quality of care in maternal and neonatal health in fourteen Bangladesh government healthcare facilities: a mixed-method study [2015]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Progress in the utilization of antenatal and delivery care services in Bangladesh: where does the equity gap lie? [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Relationship between maternal healthcare utilisation and empowerment among women in Bangladesh: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study [2021]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Trends in equity in use of maternal health services in urban and rural Bangladesh [2016]
    • Social inequalities in the utilization of maternal care in Bangladesh: Have they widened or narrowed in recent years? [2014]
    • Equity in reproductive and maternal health services in Bangladesh [2013]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Public-sector Maternal Health Programmes and Services for Rural Bangladesh [2009]
• Bangladesh, Pakistan
  • Reproductive Health
    • Comparison of inequality in utilization of maternal healthcare services between Bangladesh and Pakistan: evidence from the demographic health survey 2017-2018 [2023]
• Benin
  • Reproductive Health
    • The effects of geographical accessibility to health facilities on antenatal care and delivery services utilization in Benin: a cross-sectional study [2021]
• Brazil
  • Reproductive Health
    • Adequacy of public maternal care services in Brazil [2016]
• Burkina Faso
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Evaluating quality of obstetric care in low-resource settings: Building on the literature to design tailor-made evaluation instruments - an illustration in Burkina Faso [2010]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The obstetric care subsidy policy in Burkina Faso: what are the effects after five years of implementation? Findings of a complex evaluation [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Reflections on the Unintended Consequences of the Promotion of Institutional Pregnancy and Birth Care in Burkina Faso [2016]
    • Reducing the Medical Cost of Deliveries in Burkina Faso Is Good for Everyone, Including the Poor [2012]
  • World Health Organization
    • Investing the marginal dollar for maternal and newborn health: geographic accessibility analysis for emergency obstetric care services in Burkina Faso [2016]
• Cambodia
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Sociodemographic characteristics associated with the utilization of maternal health services in Cambodia [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of the continuum of maternal health care in Cambodia: an analysis of the Cambodia demographic health survey 2014 [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Measuring effective coverage of maternal and child health services in Cambodia: a retrospective analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 2005 to 2014 [2022]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • A decade of improvements in equity of access to reproductive and maternal health services in Cambodia, 2000–2010 [2013]
  • World Health Organization
    • Investing the marginal dollar for maternal and newborn health: geographic accessibility analysis for emergency obstetric care services in Cambodia [2016]
• Cameroon
  • Reproductive Health
    • Predictors of skilled birth attendance among married women in Cameroon: further analysis of 2018 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
• Canada
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • The safety of Canadian rural maternity services: a multi-jurisdictional cohort analysis [2015]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Indigenous maternal health and health services within Canada: a scoping review [2023]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Midwifery Services for Socially Disadvantaged Populations: Review of Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2016]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Sustaining rural maternity and surgical care [2016]
    • New approaches for rural maternity care [2012]
  • CMAJ
    • Differences in obstetric care among nulliparous First Nations and non–First Nations women in British Columbia, Canada [2015]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Rural Maternity Care [2017]
  • 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]
• Cyprus
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Exploring mothers' experiences of perinatal care in Cyprus: Babies Born Better survey [2023]
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Maternal education level and maternal healthcare utilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: an analysis of the multiple indicator cluster survey 2017/18 [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Trends of maternal health service coverage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a pooled cross-sectional study of MICS 2010 to 2018 [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Distribution and quality of emergency obstetric care service delivery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: it is time to improve regulatory mechanisms [2019]
• Developing countries
  • PLoS Medicine
    • The Effectiveness of Emergency Obstetric Referral Interventions in Developing Country Settings: A Systematic Review [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Measuring Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Developing Countries Using Demographic and Health Surveys [2016]
• East Africa
  • BMC Public Health
    • Temporal trends in spatial inequalities of maternal and newborn health services among four east African countries, 1999–2015 [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Equality in Maternal and Newborn Health: Modelling Geographic Disparities in Utilisation of Care in Five East African Countries [2016]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • 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 Health Services Research
    • Identifying geographical inequalities of maternal care utilization in Ethiopia: a Spatio-temporal analysis from 2005 to 2019 [2022]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Multilevel analysis of the predictors of completion of the continuum of maternity care in Ethiopia; using the recent 2019 Ethiopia mini demographic and health survey [2022]
    • Benefits, barriers and enablers of maternity waiting homes utilization in Ethiopia: an integrative review of national implementation experience to date [2022]
    • Optimum maternal healthcare service utilization and infant mortality in Ethiopia [2021]
    • Distribution of maternity waiting homes and their correlation with perinatal mortality and direct obstetric complication rates in Ethiopia [2019]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Spatiotemporal distribution and bivariate binary analysis of antenatal and delivery care utilizations in Ethiopia: EDHS 2000-2016 [2023]
  • BMJ Open
    • Prevalence of completion of maternity continuum of care and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • European Journal of Medical Research
    • Intention to use maternal waiting home and its predictors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Maternal Service Coverage and Its Relationship To Health Information System Performance: A Linked Facility and Population-Based Survey in Ethiopia [2022]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Inequalities in adherence to the continuum of maternal and child health service utilization in Ethiopia: multilevel analysis [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Determinants of continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health services in Ethiopia: Analysis of the modified composite coverage index using a quantile regression approach [2023]
    • Decomposition analysis of women's empowerment-based inequalities in the use of maternal health care services in Ethiopia: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys [2023]
    • Coverage of antenatal, intrapartum, and newborn care in 104 districts of Ethiopia: A before and after study four years after the launch of the national Community-Based Newborn Care programme [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Inequities in maternal health services utilization in Ethiopia 2000–2016: magnitude, trends, and determinants [2018]
  • Women's Health
    • Maternal satisfaction with emergency obstetric and newborn care services in Ethiopia and the associated factors: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• 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
    • Maternal transfer for specialist care
  • Nurse Education in Practice
    • Strengthening global midwifery education to improve quality maternity care: Co-designing the World Health Organization Midwifery Assessment Tool for Education (MATE) [2022]
  • WHO European Region
    • Midwifery Assessment Tool for Education (MATE) [2020]
• Ghana
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Distance is "a big problem": a geographic analysis of reported and modelled proximity to maternal health services in Ghana [2022]
    • Is the National Health Insurance Scheme helping pregnant women in accessing health services? Analysis of the 2014 Ghana demographic and Health survey [2021]
    • Are Ghanaian women meeting the WHO recommended maternal healthcare (MCH) utilisation? Evidence from a national survey [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Health insurance determines antenatal, delivery and postnatal care utilisation: evidence from the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveillance data [2016]
• Haiti
  • World Health Organization
    • Free obstetric care in Haiti [2010]
• High-income countries
  • BMJ Open
    • Impact of obstetric unit closures, travel time and distance to obstetric services on maternal and neonatal outcomes in high-income countries: a systematic review [2020]
  • Midwifery
    • Interventions to improve enablers and/or overcome barriers to seeking care during pregnancy, birthing and postnatal period for women living with vulnerabilities in high-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Iceland
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Challenges in migrant women’s maternity care in a high-income country: A population-based cohort study of maternal and perinatal outcomes [2021]
• India
  • Annals of Global Health
    • Coverage of Quality Maternal and Newborn Healthcare Services in India: Examining Dropouts, Disparity and Determinants [2022]
  • 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
    • Predictors of the utilisation of continuum of maternal health care services in India [2022]
    • Inefficiency, heterogeneity and spillover effects in maternal care in India: a spatial stochastic frontier analysis [2015]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Measurement and mapping of maternal health service coverage through a novel composite index: a sub-national level analysis in India [2022]
    • Maternal health care service utilization among young married women in India, 1992–2016: trends and determinants [2021]
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Has Muslim Got Benefited from the National Health Mission? A Situational Analysis of Maternal Health Services in India [2020]
  • Human Resources for Health
    • Does engagement with frontline health workers improve maternal and child healthcare utilisation and outcomes in India? [2021]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • What does quality of care mean for maternal health providers from two vulnerable states of India? Case study of Bihar and Jharkhand [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Referrals between Public Sector Health Institutions for Women with Obstetric High Risk, Complications, or Emergencies in India – A Systematic Review [2016]
    • High Spending on Maternity Care in India: What Are the Factors Explaining It? [2016]
  • Public Health Reviews
    • Social determinants of maternal health: a scoping review of factors influencing maternal mortality and maternal health service use in India [2020]
• Indonesia
  • BMC Public Health
    • The determinant of health insurance ownership among pregnant women in Indonesia [2021]
  • F1000Research
    • Determinants of maternal healthcare service utilisation among Indonesian mothers: A population-based study [2022]
  • Family Medicine and Community Health
    • Continuity of maternal healthcare services utilisation in Indonesia: analysis of determinants from the Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Trends and inequities in use of maternal health care services in Indonesia, 1986–2012 [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Analysis of antenatal care, intranatal care and postnatal care utilization: Findings from the 2017 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
• International
  • BMC Medicine
    • Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care: a systematic scoping review of clinical practice guidelines since 2011 [2022]
  • 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]
  • BMJ Open
    • Self-care interventions for preconception, antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care: a scoping review [2023]
  • Gaceta Sanitaria
    • An overview of the implementation of the continuity of care model in maternal health services: A literature review [2021]
  • Implementation Science
    • Expanding the evidence base for global recommendations on health systems: strengths and challenges of the OptimizeMNH guidance process [2016]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Childbirth: A Bill of Rights [2021]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Measuring quality of care for all women and newborns: how do we know if we are doing it right? A review of facility assessment tools [2019]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Measuring Coverage in MNCH: New Findings, New Strategies, and Recommendations for Action [2013]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • The State of the World's Midwifery 2021 [2021]
    • Implementation Manual for Developing a National Network of Maternity Units [2020]
• Ireland
  • Department of Health
    • Stratification of clinical risk in pregnancy [2020]
    • Irish Maternity Early Warning System (IMEWS) Version 2 [2019]
    • Clinical Handover in Maternity Services [2014]
  • Health Information and Quality Authority
    • Guide to maternity standards monitoring programme - revised [2019]
    • National Standards for Safer Better Maternity Services [2016]
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Irish Maternity Early Warning System (IMEWS) [2014]
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
    • ADAPTE with modified Delphi supported developing a National Clinical Guideline: stratification of clinical risk in pregnancy [2022]
• Jordan
  • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
    • Evaluation of maternal and newborn health services in Jordan [2018]
• Kenya
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Impact of free maternity policies in Kenya: an interrupted time-series analysis [2021]
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
    • Examining the Implementation of the Free Maternity Services Policy in Kenya: A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Quality of maternity care and its determinants along the continuum in Kenya: A structural equation modeling analysis [2017]
• Laos
  • BMC Public Health
    • Trends of socioeconomic inequality in using maternal health care services in Lao People’s Democratic Republic from year 2000 to 2012 [2018]
  • World Health Organization
    • Investing the marginal dollar for maternal and newborn health: geographic accessibility analysis for emergency obstetric care services in Lao People's Democratic Republic [2016]
• Lesotho
  • PLoS ONE
    • Comprehensive Approach to Improving Maternal Health and Achieving MDG 5: Report from the Mountains of Lesotho [2012]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Annals of Global Health
    • Maternity Waiting Home Interventions as a Strategy for Improving Birth Outcomes: A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Social capital and maternal and child health services uptake in low- and middle-income countries: mixed methods systematic review [2021]
    • Assessment of facility readiness for implementing the WHO/UNICEF standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities – experiences from UNICEF’s implementation in three countries of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Effects of demand-side financing on utilisation, experiences and outcomes of maternity care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2014]
    • Cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve the utilization and provision of maternal and newborn health care in low-income and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review [2014]
  • BMJ Open
    • Capacity and quality of maternal and child health services delivery at the subnational primary healthcare level in relation to intermediate health outputs: a cross-sectional study of 12 low-income and middle-income countries [2023]
  • Global Health Action
    • Strategies for improving health care seeking for maternal and newborn illnesses in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]
    • Assessing emergency obstetric care provision in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the application of global guidelines [2016]
    • The use of cell phones and radio communication systems to reduce delays in getting help for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review [2015]
  • Healthcare
    • Challenges in Maternal and Child Health Services Delivery and Access during Pandemics or Public Health Disasters in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2021]
  • Implementation Science
    • Barriers and enablers to guideline implementation strategies to improve obstetric care practice in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of qualitative evidence [2016]
  • International Journal for Quality in Health Care
    • Criterion-based clinical audit to assess quality of obstetrical care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2011]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Utilisation of Skilled Birth Attendant in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Trajectories and Key Sociodemographic Factors [2021]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Maternal health policy environment and the relationship with service utilization in low- and middle-income countries [2023]
  • Women's Health
    • Women decision-making autonomy on maternal health service and associated factors in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• 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]
• Mozambique
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Factors Associated with Underutilization of Maternity Health Care Cascade in Mozambique: Analysis of the 2015 National Health Survey [2022]
• Myanmar
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Maternal and child health voucher scheme in Myanmar: a review of early stage implementation [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Determinants of institutional maternity services utilization in Myanmar [2022]
• Nepal
  • BioMed Research International
    • Trends and Inequalities in Use of Maternal Health Care Services in Nepal: Strategy in the Search for Improvements [2017]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Trends in national and subnational wealth related inequalities in use of maternal health care services in Nepal: an analysis using demographic and health surveys (2001–2016) [2021]
    • Intersectional (in) equities in contact coverage of maternal and newborn health services in Nepal: insights from a nationwide cross-sectional household survey [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Basic emergency obstetric and newborn care service availability and readiness in Nepal: Analysis of the 2015 Nepal Health Facility Survey [2021]
  • Public Health Reviews
    • Improving maternal health services through social accountability interventions in Nepal: an analytical review of existing literature [2020]
  • Reproductive Health
    • High coverage but low quality of maternal and newborn health services in the coverage cascade: who is benefitted and left behind in accessing better quality health services in Nepal? [2022]
• Netherlands
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal characteristics associated with referral to obstetrician-led care in low-risk pregnant women in the Netherlands: A retrospective cohort study [2023]
    • Geographical, Ethnic and Socio-Economic Differences in Utilization of Obstetric Care in the Netherlands [2016]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • New Zealand Maternity Clinical Indicators 2019 and 2020 [2022]
    • HISO 10050:2022 Maternity Care Summary Standard [2022]
    • Primary Maternity Services Notice 2021 - Guide [2021]
    • Primary Maternity Services Notice 2021 [2021]
    • Maternal Fetal Medicine [2021]
    • Integrated Maternity and Child Health Services Outcomes Evaluation Report [2016]
    • Section 88 Primary Maternity Services Notice 2007 [2015]
    • Maternity Consumer Survey 2014 [2015]
    • Evaluation of the Maternity Quality and Safety Programme [2015]
    • Enrolling Babies at Birth [2014]
    • Comparative Study of Maternity Systems [2013]
    • Guidelines for Consultation with Obstetric and Related Medical Services (Referral Guidelines) [2012]
    • New Zealand Maternity Standards [2011]
    • Hospital based Maternity Events 2006 [2010]
    • National Maternity Monitoring Group
• Nigeria
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Coverage-level and predictors of maternity continuum of care in Nigeria: implications for maternal, newborn and child health programming [2023]
    • 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]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Is there a link between the autonomy of women and maternal healthcare utilization in Nigeria? A cross-sectional survey [2023]
  • BMJ Open
    • Multivariate decomposition of trends, inequalities and predictors of skilled birth attendants utilisation in Nigeria (1990-2018): a cross-sectional analysis of change drivers [2022]
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • National and subnational variations in gender relations and the utilization of maternal healthcare services in Nigeria [2022]
    • Determinants of antenatal care, institutional delivery and postnatal care services utilization in Nigeria [2015]
• Pakistan
  • Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
    • Bayesian Analysis of Trends in Utilization of Maternal Healthcare Services in Pakistan during 2006-2018 [2021]
  • Conflict and Health
    • Impact of service provision platforms on maternal and newborn health in conflict areas and their acceptability in Pakistan: a systematic review [2015]
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • Who is excluded and how? An analysis of community spaces for maternal and child health in Pakistan [2015]
  • Healthcare Policy
    • Reforms in Pakistan: Decisive Times for Improving Maternal and Child Health [2012]
• Poland
  • Midwifery
    • The "Blessing" of Pregnancy? Barriers to accessing adequate maternal care in Poland: A mixed-method study among women, healthcare providers, and decision-makers [2023]
• 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]
• Republic of Korea
  • BMJ Open
    • Is limited access to obstetric services associated with adverse birth outcomes? A cross-sectional study of Korean national birth data [2022]
• Rwanda
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Temporal trends in coverage, quality and equity of maternal and child health services in Rwanda, 2000–2015 [2020]
• Sierra Leone
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Measuring coverage of maternal and child health services using routine health facility data: a Sierra Leone case study [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Inequalities in maternal healthcare use in Sierra Leone: Evidence from the 2008-2019 Demographic and Health Surveys [2022]
• South Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Growing inequities in maternal health in South Africa: a comparison of serial national household surveys [2016]
• South Asia
  • Globalization and Health
    • Approaches towards improving the quality of maternal and newborn health services in South Asia: challenges and opportunities for healthcare systems [2018]
• South Pacific
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Alternative measures of spatial distribution and availability of health facilities for the delivery of emergency obstetric services in island communities [2014]
• South-East Asia
  • Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • The utilization of maternal health services at primary healthcare setting in Southeast Asian Countries: A systematic review of the literature [2022]
  • WHO South-East Asia Region
    • Regional Strategic Directions for strengthening Midwifery in the South-East Asia Region 2020–2024 [2020]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health in 17 sub-Saharan African countries [2022]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Coverage and factors associated with completion of continuum of care for maternal health in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry analysis [2022]
    • Quality of care in the free maternal healthcare era in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of providers’ and managers’ perceptions [2021]
    • Quality and women’s satisfaction with maternal referral practices in sub-Saharan African low and lower-middle income countries: a systematic review [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal healthcare utilsation and complete childhood vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study of 29 nationally representative surveys [2021]
  • International Health
    • Towards achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 3: multilevel analyses of demographic and health survey data on health insurance coverage and maternal healthcare utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa [2023]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Association between frequency of mass media exposure and maternal health care service utilization among women in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for tailored health communication and education [2022]
    • Women empowerment and skilled birth attendance in sub-Saharan Africa: A multi-country analysis [2021]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Governing the implementation of Emergency Obstetric Care: experiences of Rural District Health Managers, Tanzania [2014]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Subnational variation for care at birth in Tanzania: is this explained by place, people, money or drugs? [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Health facility service availability and readiness to provide basic emergency obstetric and newborn care in a low-resource setting: evidence from a Tanzania National Survey [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Addressing the huge poor–rich gap of inequalities in accessing safe childbirth care: A first step to achieving universal maternal health coverage in Tanzania [2021]
    • Enhancing Maternal and Perinatal Health in Under-Served Remote Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Tanzanian Model [2016]
• Turkey
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
    • Mother-friendly hospital programme of Turkey: national intervention to improve the quality of maternity services [2021]
• Uganda
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Can routine health facility data be used to monitor subnational coverage of maternal, newborn and child health services in Uganda? [2021]
    • Determinants of maternal health services utilization in Uganda [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Continuum of care for maternal health in Uganda: A national cross-sectional study [2022]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda [2022]
• United Kingdom
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Use of induction of labour and emergency caesarean section and perinatal outcomes in English maternity services: a national hospital-level study [2022]
    • Developing a set of consensus indicators to support maternity service quality improvement: using Core Outcome Set methodology including a Delphi process [2018]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • 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 survey 2022 [2023]
  • 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)
  • Midwifery
    • Challenging norms: Making non-normative choices in childbearing. Results of a meta ethnographic review of the literature [2023]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Safe midwifery staffing for maternity settings [2015]
  • NHS Digital
    • Maternity Services Monthly Statistics
  • NHS England
    • Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services [2023]
    • Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal care technical guidance [2023]
    • Equity and equality: Guidance for local maternity systems [2021]
    • Transforming perinatal safety [2020]
    • Implementing a revised perinatal quality surveillance model [2020]
    • Maternity DMA Report – Digital Maturity Assessment of Maternity Services in England 2018: Supporting documents [2018]
    • Maternity DMA Report – Digital Maturity Assessment of Maternity Services in England 2018 [2018]
    • Implementing Better Births: A resource pack for Local Maternity Systems [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Local guidelines for admission to UK midwifery units compared with national guidance: A national survey using the UK Midwifery Study System (UKMidSS) [2020]
    • External validity of prevalence estimates from the national maternity surveys in England: The impact of response rate [2020]
  • Scottish Government
    • Maternity Care Survey
  • Society for Acute Medicine
    • Provision of acute medicine services for pregnant women in UK hospitals: Data from the Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit 2019 [2021]
• United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Maternal-Fetal Intervention and Fetal Care Centers [2011]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Levels of Maternal Care [2019]
    • Hospital Disaster Preparedness for Obstetricians and Facilities Providing Maternity Care [2017]
    • Hospital-Based Triage of Obstetric Patients [2016]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Obstetric Care Consensus #9: Levels of Maternal Care [2019]
    • US and territory telemedicine policies: identifying gaps in perinatal care [2016]
  • JAMA Health Forum
    • Maternity Care Deserts in the US [2023]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • United States and territory policies supporting maternal and neonatal transfer: review of transport and reimbursement [2015]
  • Maternal and Child Health Journal
    • Shackling and pregnancy care policies in US prisons and jails [2023]
  • Medical Care
    • Mapping the Location of Health Centers in Relation to “Maternity Care Deserts” [2021]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Rural and Urban Differences in Insurance Coverage at Prepregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum [2023]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • SMFM Special Statement: Who’s who in patient safety and quality for maternal healthcare in the United States [2020]
    • SMFM Special Statement: A maternal transport briefing form and checklist [2020]
    • SMFM Special Statement: The Affordable Care Act’s foundation of coverage: essential health benefits are essential [2019]
    • The development and implementation of checklists in obstetrics [2017]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Special Report: Current approaches to measuring quality of care in obstetrics [2016]
• Vietnam
  • Global Health Action
    • Multiple vulnerabilities and maternal healthcare in Vietnam: findings from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, 2000, 2006, and 2011 [2016]
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
    • Shaping the Health Policy Agenda: The Case of Safe Motherhood Policy in Vietnam [2015]
  • Journal of Rural Medicine : JRM
    • Trends in inequalities in utilization of reproductive health services from 2000 to 2011 in Vietnam [2015]
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Maternal health care : policies, technical standards and services accessibility in eight countries in the Western Pacific Region [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Global progress report on WASH in health care facilities: Fundamentals first [2021]
    • Strengthening quality midwifery education for Universal Health Coverage 2030: Framework for action [2019]
    • Strengthening quality midwifery education: WHO meeting report, July 25-26, 2016: in support of Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health 2016–30, Global strategy for human resources for health: workforce 2030 [2017]
    • Standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities [2016]
    • Midwives voices, midwives realities. Findings from a global consultation on providing quality midwifery care [2016]
    • The World Health Organization Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health project at a glance: the power of collaboration [2014]
    • WHO Recommendations: Optimizing Health Worker Roles to Improve Access to Key Maternal and Newborn Health Interventions Through Task Shifting [2012]
    • The World Health Organization multicountry survey on maternal and newborn health: study protocol [2011]
    • Strengthening midwifery toolkit [2011]
    • 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

Medications in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Critical caveats in using product information/pregnancy categories for pregnant or breastfeeding patients [2018]
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
    • Prescribing medicines in pregnancy database
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Diethylstilboestrol (DES) exposure in utero [2021]
• 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]
• Denmark
  • Journal of the National Cancer Institute
    • Medication-Associated Phthalate Exposure and Childhood Cancer Incidence [2022]
• Developed countries
  • Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
    • Prescription drug use during pregnancy in developed countries: a systematic review [2011]
• Ethiopia
  • SAGE Open Medicine
    • Prescription drugs use during pregnancy in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • EUROmediCAT
    • EUROmediCAT signal detection: an evaluation of selected congenital anomaly-medication associations [2016]
    • EUROmediCAT signal detection: a systematic method for identifying potential teratogenic medication [2016]
    • Improving Information on Maternal Medication Use by Linking Prescription Data to Congenital Anomaly Registers: A EUROmediCAT Study [2015]
    • EUROmediCAT Recommendations for European Pharmacovigilance concerning safety of medication use in pregnancy [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • An inventory of European data sources to support pharmacoepidemiologic research on neurodevelopmental outcomes in children following medication exposure in pregnancy: A contribution from the ConcePTION project [2022]
• Europe, United States
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
    • Assuring Access to Safe Medicines in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding [2021]
• France
  • Drug Safety
    • Dispensing of Potentially Harmful Prescription Drugs in 1.8 Million Pregnant Women in France: A Nationwide Study Based on Two Risk Classification Systems [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Birth Outcomes in DES Children and Grandchildren: A Multigenerational National Cohort Study on Informative Families [2023]
• International
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Interventions to enhance medication adherence in pregnancy- a systematic review [2023]
  • BMJ Open
    • Prevalence of polypharmacy in pregnancy: a systematic review [2023]
  • Journal of Family & Reproductive Health
    • Knowledge, Information Sources, and Institutional Trust of Patients Regarding Medication Use in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review [2021]
  • Seminars in Perinatology
    • Epidemiology of Medications Use in Pregnancy [2015]
• Italy
  • Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
    • Medication prescriptions before, during and after pregnancy in Italy: a population-based study [2021]
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
    • The Italian Network for Monitoring Medication Use During Pregnancy (MoM-Net): Experience and Perspectives [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Drug Prescriptions among Italian and Immigrant Pregnant Women Resident in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study [2022]
• Japan
  • Global Health & Medicine
    • The advances in dealing with the safety of medicated drugs in pregnancy [2021]
• Middle East
  • Oman Medical Journal
    • Herbal Medicines Use During Pregnancy: A Review from the Middle East [2015]
• New Zealand
  • PLoS ONE
    • Patterns of prescription medicine dispensing before and during pregnancy in New Zealand, 2005–2015 [2020]
• Norway
  • BMJ Open
    • Longitudinal changes in neurodevelopmental outcomes between 18 and 36 months in children with prenatal triptan exposure: findings from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study [2016]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Inquiry
    • Traditional Medicine Utilisation Among Pregnant Women in Sub-saharan African Countries: A Systematic Review of Literature [2022]
• Suriname
  • Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
    • Prevalence and safety of prescription medicine use during pregnancy in the Republic of Suriname in the year 2017: a pharmacoepidemiological analysis [2021]
• Sweden
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • Drug use during pregnancy in Sweden – assessed by the Prescribed Drug Register and the Medical Birth Register [2011]
• Switzerland
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Use of Prescribed Drugs to Treat Chronic Diseases during Pregnancy in Outpatient Care in Switzerland between 2014 and 2018: Descriptive Analysis of Swiss Health Care Claims Data [2022]
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Use of drugs to treat symptoms and acute conditions during pregnancy in outpatient care in Switzerland between 2014 and 2018: analysis of Swiss healthcare claims data [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Open
    • Women's experiences of over-the-counter and prescription medication during pregnancy in the UK: findings from survey free-text responses and narrative interviews [2023]
  • 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
    • UKTIS
• United States
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Hydroxychloroquine early in pregnancy and risk of birth defects [2021]
  • American Journal of Perinatology
    • Improving Safe and Effective Use of Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: Workshop Summary [2017]
  • American Journal of Transplantation
    • Mycophenolate Fetal Toxicity and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies [2013]
  • Birth Defects Research
    • Maternal exposure to hydroxychloroquine and birth defects [2021]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Developing a systematic approach to safer medication use during pregnancy: summary of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—convened meeting [2014]
    • Medicine and Pregnancy
  • Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
    • The Need for Safer Medication Use in Pregnancy [2013]
  • Food and Drug Administration
    • Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling (Drugs) Final Rule [2014]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Evaluation of Drug Labels Following the 2015 Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule [2020]
  • Pharmacy and Therapeutics
    • The New Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule [2016]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Gabapentin in pregnancy and the risk of adverse neonatal and maternal outcomes: A population-based cohort study nested in the US Medicaid Analytic eXtract dataset [2020]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Prenatal acetaminophen use and outcomes in children [2017]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Guidelines for establishing a poison centre [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Medications and breastfeeding

Multiple pregnancy

• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Management of Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy [2021]
• Botswana
  • BMJ Open
    • Prevalence and outcomes of twin pregnancies in Botswana: a national birth outcomes surveillance study [2021]
• Brazil
  • PLoS ONE
    • Twin pregnancy and perinatal outcomes: Data from ‘Birth in Brazil Study’ [2021]
• Canada
  • 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
    • Management of Dichorionic Twin Pregnancies [2022]
    • Ultrasound in Twin Pregnancies [2017]
    • Prenatal Screening for and Diagnosis of Aneuploidy in Twin Pregnancies [2017]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Temporal trends and adverse perinatal outcomes of twin pregnancies at differing gestational ages: an observational study from China between 2012-2020 [2022]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Associations between gestational weight gain and adverse neonatal outcomes: a comparison between the US and the Chinese guidelines in Chinese women with twin pregnancies [2023]
• Denmark
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Risks and pregnancy outcome after fetal reduction in dichorionic twin pregnancies: a Danish national retrospective cohort study [2023]
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Twin delivery [2020]
• Eastern and Southern Africa
  • PLoS Medicine
    • National policies and care provision in pregnancy and childbirth for twins in Eastern and Southern Africa: A mixed-methods multi-country study [2019]
• Europe
  • Euro-Peristat
    • Variations in Multiple Birth Rates and Impact on Perinatal Outcomes in Europe [2016]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Risk of fetal loss after chorionic villus sampling in twin pregnancy derived from propensity score matching analysis [2022]
• Finland
  • Acta Diabetologica
    • Higher odds of gestational diabetes among women with multiple pregnancies: a nationwide register-based cohort study in Finland [2023]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal complications in twin pregnancies in Finland during 1987–2014: a retrospective study [2019]
• France
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Gestational weight gain adequacy among twin pregnancies in France [2023]
• International
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Comparison of international guidelines on the management of twin pregnancy [2023]
    • Outcomes in intervention and management of multiple pregnancies trials: A systematic review [2021]
  • European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences
    • Impact of maternal age on perinatal outcomes in twin pregnancies: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Practice Guidelines: role of ultrasound in twin pregnancy [2016]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Review of International Clinical Guidelines Related to Prenatal Screening during Monochorionic Pregnancies [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Micronutrients in Multiple Pregnancies—The Knowns and Unknowns: A Systematic Review [2021]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Risk of fetal loss following amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling in twin pregnancy: systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Japan
  • Journal of Human Genetics
    • Prevalence of common aneuploidy in twin pregnancies [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Time trend analysis of perinatal mortality, stillbirth, and early neonatal mortality of multiple pregnancies for each gestational week from the year 2000 to 2019: A population-based study in Japan [2022]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Application of Japanese guidelines for gestational weight gain to multiple pregnancy outcomes and its optimal range in 101,336 Japanese women [2019]
• Low and middle income countries
  • World Health Organization
    • Mode and timing of twin delivery and perinatal outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis of the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health [2014]
• Netherlands
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Working conditions in women with multiple pregnancy-the impact on preterm birth and adherence to guidelines: a prospective cohort study [2022]
• Republic of Korea
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Short-term neonatal and long-term infant outcome of late-preterm twins: nationwide population-based study [2022]
• Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Gestational age assessment and determination of chorionicity in multiple pregnancy [2013]
• Taiwan
  • Pediatrics and Neonatology
    • Nationwide Twin Birth Weight Percentiles by Gestational Age in Taiwan [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Updated guidance for the management of twin and triplet pregnancies from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, UK: What's new that may improve perinatal outcomes? [2020]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Noninvasive prenatal screening in twin pregnancies with cell-free DNA using the IONA test: a prospective multicenter study [2021]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Twin and triplet pregnancy [2019]
    • Multiple pregnancy: twin and triplet pregnancies [2019]
  • Reproductive Sciences
    • Trends of Selective Fetal Reduction and Selective Termination in Multiple Pregnancy, in England and Wales: a Cross-Sectional Study [2022]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy, Management [2016]
• United States
  • American College of Radiology
    • Multiple Gestations
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Multiple gestation associated with infertility therapy: a committee opinion [2022]
    • Multiple Births or Multiple Gestation
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Changes in Twin Births in the United States,2019-2021 [2022]
    • Multiple Births
  • International Journal of Obesity
    • Pregnancy weight gain in twin gestations and maternal and child health outcomes at 5 years [2021]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • Weight gain in twin gestations: Are the Institute of Medicine guidelines optimal for neonatal outcomes? [2015]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Accuracy of sonographic chorionicity classification in twin gestations [2014]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • SMFM Special Statement: Updated checklists for management of monochorionic twin pregnancy [2020]
    • SMFM Special Statement: State of the science on multifetal gestations: unique considerations and importance [2019]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Musculoskeletal diseases in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy [2018]
• Europe
  • European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology
    • EULAR recommendations for a core data set for pregnancy registries in rheumatology [2021]
    • The EULAR points to consider for use of antirheumatic drugs before pregnancy, and during pregnancy and lactation [2016]
• Finland
  • Spine Journal
    • Incidence of lumbar discectomy during pregnancy and within 12 months post-partum in Finland between 1999 and 2017: a retrospective register-based cohort study [2023]
• High-income countries
  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
    • Pregnancy in women with psoriatic arthritis: A systematic literature review of disease activity and adverse pregnancy outcomes [2021]
• International
  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
    • Pregnancy in axial spondyloarthropathy: A systematic review & meta-analysis [2020]
• Middle East
  • Clinical Rheumatology
    • Enhancing the care of women with rheumatic diseases during pregnancy: challenges and unmet needs in the Middle East [2015]
• Taiwan
  • Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal
    • Pregnancy outcomes and perinatal complications of Asian mothers with juvenile idiopathic arthritis – a case-control registry study [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Rheumatology
    • British Society for Rheumatology guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding: immunomodulatory anti-rheumatic drugs and corticosteroids [2023]
    • British Society for Rheumatology guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding: comorbidity medications used in rheumatology practice [2023]
    • BSR and BHPR guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding—Part II: analgesics and other drugs used in rheumatology practice [2016]
    • BSR and BHPR guideline on prescribing drugs in pregnancy and breastfeeding—Part I: standard and biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and corticosteroids [2016]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Management of pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy [2021]
• United States
  • American College of Rheumatology
    • 2020 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Reproductive Health in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Comanagement with rheumatology and prescription biologics filled during pregnancy in women with rheumatic diseases: a retrospective analysis of US administrative claims data [2022]
• {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
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
    • Guideline for Management of Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy and Hyperemesis Gravidarum [2019]
• Canada
  • Health Canada
    • DICLECTIN (doxylamine and pyridoxine combination) - Assessing Safety in pregnancy [2016]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • The Management of Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy [2016]
• Canada, United Kingdom, United States
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Comparison of Pregnancy Outcomes of Patients Treated With Ondansetron vs Alternative Antiemetic Medications in a Multinational, Population-Based Cohort [2021]
• Finland
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Incidence and risk factors of hyperemesis gravidarum: A national register-based study in Finland, 2005-2017 [2020]
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Readmissions due to hyperemesis gravidarum: a nation-wide Finnish register study [2022]
• International
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Clinical practice guidelines for the management of hyperemesis gravidarum: A systematic review and quality appraisal with AGREE II [2022]
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Perinatal outcomes of infants born to mothers with hyperemesis gravidarum: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
    • The windsor definition for hyperemesis gravidarum: A multistakeholder international consensus definition [2021]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Hyperemesis gravidarum and neonatal outcomes: A systematic review of observational studies [2021]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Hyperemesis and Nausea/Vomiting in Pregnancy [2015]
• Japan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Lack of catch-up in weight gain may intermediate between pregnancies with hyperemesis gravidarum and reduced fetal growth: the Japan Environment and Children's Study [2022]
• Netherlands
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Recurrence, postponing pregnancy, and termination rates after hyperemesis gravidarum: Follow up of the MOTHER study [2021]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Pregnancy complications and birth outcomes among women experiencing nausea only or nausea and vomiting during pregnancy in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study [2015]
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • Antiemetic Prescription Fills in Pregnancy: A Drug Utilization Study Among 762,437 Pregnancies in Norway [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy is not just ‘morning sickness’: data from a prospective cohort study in the UK [2020]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Management of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy [2021]
    • Doxylamine/pyridoxine (Xonvea) for treating nausea and vomiting of pregnancy [2019]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Management of Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy and Hyperemesis Gravidarum [2016]
• United States
  • Pharmacology
    • Hyperemesis Gravidarum: A Review of Recent Literature [2017]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Digestive system diseases in pregnancy

Neural tube defects, folic acid

• Africa
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Birth prevalence of neural tube defects and associated risk factors in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Magnitude and determinants of neural tube defect in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Prevalence of anencephaly 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, Canada, United States
  • Nutrients
    • Women Taking a Folic Acid Supplement in Countries with Mandatory Food Fortification Programs May Be Exceeding the Upper Tolerable Limit of Folic Acid: A Systematic Review [2022]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Folic acid and risk of twinning: a systematic review of the recent literature, July 1994 to July 2006 [2007]
• Brazil
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Recommendations for folate intake in women: implications for public health strategies [2010]
• Cameroon
  • Advances in Nutrition
    • Review of Existing Models to Predict Reductions in Neural Tube Defects Due to Folic Acid Fortification and Model Results Using Data from Cameroon [2021]
• Canada
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Periconceptional intake of folic acid among low-risk women in Canada: summary of a workshop aiming to align prenatal folic acid supplement composition with current expert guidelines [2018]
  • BCGuidelines
    • Folate Deficiency - Investigation & Management [2012]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Folate Testing: A Review of the Diagnostic Accuracy, Clinical Utility, Cost-Effectiveness and Guidelines [2015]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Folate and neural tube defects: The role of supplements and food fortification [2016]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Effect of Folic Acid Food Fortification in Canada on Congenital Heart Disease Subtypes [2016]
    • Folic Acid Use among Pregnant Women in Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis, and Pregnancy Management for Fetal Neural Tube Defects [2021]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Socioeconomic inequality in periconceptional folic acid supplementation in China: a census of 0.9 million women in their first trimester of pregnancy [2017]
  • China CDC Weekly
    • Folic Acid Status and Associated Factors for Pregnant Chinese Women — China, 2015 [2021]
• Costa Rica
  • Child's Nervous System
    • Integrated surveillance strategy to support the prevention of neural tube defects through food fortification with folic acid: the experience of Costa Rica [2023]
  • 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]
• East Africa
  • BMC Neurology
    • Birth prevalence of neural tube defects in eastern Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• Ethiopia
  • Global Pediatric Health
    • Magnitude and Associated Factors of Neural Tube Defects in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Folate deficiency among women of reproductive age in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Europe
  • EUROCAT
    • Prevention of Neural Tube Defects in Europe: A Public Health Failure [2021]
• France
  • Nutrients
    • Prevention of Neural Tube Defects by Folic Acid Supplementation: A National Population-Based Study [2020]
    • Social Inequalities in Prenatal Folic Acid Supplementation: Results from the ELFE Cohort [2019]
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • The mandatory fortification of staple foods with folic acid: a current controversy in Germany [2011]
• High-income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Neonatal and infant mortality associated with spina bifida: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• India
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • Indian Perspective on Clinical Aspects, Usage, and Guidelines of Folic Acid [2014]
• International
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
    • Food Fortification With Folic Acid for Prevention of Spina Bifida and Anencephaly: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Evidence Evaluation for Policy-Making [2021]
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
    • Estimates of global and regional prevalence of neural tube defects for 2015: a systematic analysis [2018]
  • Birth Defects Research
    • A 2019 global update on folic acid-preventable spina bifida and anencephaly [2021]
  • EUROCAT
    • Analysis of Mortality among Neonates and Children with Spina Bifida: An International Registry-Based Study, 2001-2012 [2019]
  • Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • Folic acid supplementation for pregnant women and those planning pregnancy: 2015 update [2015]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Preventing birth defects, saving lives, and promoting health equity: an urgent call to action for universal mandatory food fortification with folic acid [2022]
  • Nutrients
    • Folate Supplementation in Women with Pre-Existing Diabetes [2023]
    • Folic Acid Fortification and Neural Tube Defect Risk: Analysis of the Food Fortification Initiative Dataset [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost-effectiveness of mandatory folic acid fortification of flours in prevention of neural tube defects: A systematic review [2021]
  • Preventive Medicine Reports
    • Maternal folic acid and multivitamin supplementation: International clinical evidence with considerations for the prevention of folate-sensitive birth defects [2021]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Global prevalence of congenital anencephaly: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• Israel
  • BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
    • Parity and the use of folic acid supplementation during pregnancy [2019]
• Japan
  • Congenital Anomalies
    • Preconceptional folic acid supplementation in Japan [2017]
• Latin America
  • PLoS ONE
    • Neural tube defects: Sex ratio changes after fortification with folic acid [2018]
  • Public Health Nutrition
    • Neural tube defects in Latin America and the impact of fortification: a literature review [2014]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Child's Nervous System
    • Spina bifida management in low- and middle-income countries - a comprehensive policy approach [2023]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Maternal folic acid supplementation and infant birthweight in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2020]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Folate/folic acid
  • Starship
    • Neural Tube Defects - management of infant [2017]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Folic acid supplementation, dietary folate intake during pregnancy and risk for spontaneous preterm delivery: a prospective observational cohort study [2014]
• Pakistan
  • Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
    • Neural tube defects, their implications and solutions in Muslim society [2021]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Folate supplementation during the preconception period, pregnancy and puerperium. Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Guidelines [2017]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Nutrients
    • Knowledge and Practice of Childbearing Women in Saudi Arabia towards Folic Acid Supplement-Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study [2022]
• Slovenia
  • Nutrients
    • Dietary Intake of Folate and Assessment of the Folate Deficiency Prevalence in Slovenia Using Serum Biomarkers [2021]
• Spain
  • Nutrients
    • The Use of Lower or Higher Than Recommended Doses of Folic Acid Supplements during Pregnancy Is Associated with Child Attentional Dysfunction at 4–5 Years of Age in the INMA Project [2021]
• Switzerland
  • Nutrients
    • Inadequate Status and Low Awareness of Folate in Switzerland—A Call to Strengthen Public Health Measures to Ensure Sufficient Intakes [2020]
• Turkey
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Evaluation of neural tube defects from 2014 to 2019 in Turkey [2022]
• United Kingdom
  • Birth Defects Research
    • Maternal ethnicity and the prevalence of British pregnancies affected by neural tube defects [2021]
  • Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology
    • Knowledge and periconceptional use of folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects in ethnic communities in the United Kingdom: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
  • HSC Public Health Agency
    • Folic acid and Vitamin D guidelines for health professionals [2017]
  • JRSM Open
    • Folates, folic acid and preconception care – a review [2021]
  • Public Health England
    • Update on folic acid [2017]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Neural tube defect
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Folic Acid Supplementation to Prevent Neural Tube Defects: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2023]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Folic Acid for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects [2012]
  • American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics
    • Focused Revision: Policy statement on folic acid and neural tube defects [2021]
    • Laboratory screening and diagnosis of open neural tube defects, 2019 revision: a technical standard of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) [2020]
    • Technical standards and guidelines: prenatal screening for open neural tube defects [2005]
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
    • Fortification of corn masa flour with folic acid in the United States: an overview of the evidence [2014]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Neural Tube Defects in Pregnancies Among Women With Diagnosed HIV Infection — 15 Jurisdictions, 2013–2017 [2020]
    • Updated Estimates of Neural Tube Defects Prevented by Mandatory Folic Acid Fortification — United States, 1995–2011 [2015]
    • Supplement Use and Other Characteristics Among Pregnant Women with a Previous Pregnancy Affected by a Neural Tube Defect — United States, 1997–2009 [2015]
    • Folic Acid
  • Nutrients
    • Impact of Voluntary Folic Acid Fortification of Corn Masa Flour on RBC Folate Concentrations in the U.S. (NHANES 2011–2018) [2021]
  • Pediatrics
    • Prenatal Decision-Making for Myelomeningocele: Can We Minimize Bias and Variability? [2015]
  • Spina Bifida Association
    • Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida [2018]
  • Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
    • Demystifying Spina Bifida Guidelines Using a Periodicity Schedule [2022]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Folic Acid for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects: Preventive Medication [2017]
• Vietnam
  • Nutrients
    • Low Prevalence of Folic Acid Supplementation during Pregnancy: A Multicenter Study in Vietnam [2019]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Monitoring flour fortification to maximize health benefits: a manual for millers, regulators, and programme managers [2021]
    • Guideline: optimal serum and red blood cell folate concentrations in women of reproductive age for prevention of neural tube defects [2015]
    • Serum and red blood cell folate concentrations for assessing folate status in populations [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Obstetrics, perinatology
    • Fetal therapy

Neurologic and mental disorders in pregnancy

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Management of bipolar disorder over the perinatal period [2016]
    • Epilepsy in pregnancy: a collaborative team effort of obstetricians, neurologists and primary care physicians for a successful outcome [2014]
  • Centre of Perinatal Excellence
    • Mental health care in the perinatal period: Australian Clinical Practice Guideline [2017]
  • Fertility Society of Australia
    • Effects of mental illness and its treatment on fertility and pregnancy health [2021]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Maternal mortality and psychiatric morbidity in the perinatal period: challenges and opportunities for prevention in the Australian setting [2007]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders [2018]
    • Perinatal mental health: an area of specialty [2018]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Mental Health Care in the Perinatal Period [2021]
• Australia, United Kingdom, United States
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health
    • Consensus recommendations for the assessment and treatment of perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): A Delphi study [2023]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Antiseizure drugs for women with epilepsy [2020]
  • Canadian Pharmacists Journal
    • Antiseizure drugs and women: Challenges with contraception and pregnancy [2020]
  • CMAJ
    • Perinatal suicide in Ontario, Canada: a 15-year population-based study [2017]
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
    • Pregnancy outcomes of women with multiple sclerosis treated with ocrelizumab in Canada: A descriptive analysis of real-world data [2022]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Best practice guidelines for mental health disorders in the perinatal period [2014]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Pregnancy and Women's Mental Health in Canada
• Denmark
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
    • Maternal antipsychotic use during pregnancy and congenital malformations [2023]
  • European Journal of Neurology
    • Pregnancy outcomes after early fetal exposure to injectable first-line treatments, dimethyl fumarate, or natalizumab in Danish women with multiple sclerosis [2023]
  • Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
    • Associations Between ADHD Medication Use in Pregnancy and Severe Malformations Based on Prenatal and Postnatal Diagnoses: A Danish Registry-Based Study [2021]
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
    • Pregnancy outcomes following maternal or paternal exposure to teriflunomide in the Danish MS population [2022]
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
    • Maternal stress during pregnancy and gestational duration: A cohort study from the Danish National Birth Cohort [2023]
  • Psychiatry Research
    • Prescription patterns of benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine-related drugs in the peripartum period: A population-based study [2020]
  • Psychological Medicine
    • Self-harm in pregnancy and the postnatal year: prevalence and risk factors [2023]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • Maternal, child and adolescent mental health: challenges and strategic directions for the Eastern Mediterranean Region [2011]
    • Atlas: child, adolescent and maternal mental health resources in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [2011]
    • Maternal, child and adolescent mental health
• Europe
  • European Stroke Organisation
    • European Stroke Organisation guidelines on stroke in women: Management of menopause, pregnancy and postpartum [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence of Antenatal Anxiety in European Women: A Literature Review [2023]
  • Journal of Headache and Pain
    • Latest clinical recommendations on valproate use for migraine prophylaxis in women of childbearing age: overview from European Medicines Agency and European Headache Federation [2018]
  • Journal of Neurology
    • Pregnancy outcomes in interferon-beta-exposed patients with multiple sclerosis: results from the European Interferon-beta Pregnancy Registry [2020]
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Diagnosis and management of individuals with Fetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder; a consensus statement from the European Reference Network for Congenital Malformations and Intellectual Disability [2019]
• Finland
  • Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
    • Traumatic brain injury during pregnancy is associated with increased rate of cesarean section: a nationwide multi-register study in Finland [2023]
• Finland, Sweden
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
    • Prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes after exposure to interferon beta prior to or during pregnancy in women with MS: Stratification by maternal and newborn characteristics in a register-based cohort study in Finland and Sweden [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The association between exposure to interferon-beta during pregnancy and birth measurements in offspring of women with multiple sclerosis [2019]
• France
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Pregnancy planning and acceptance and maternal psychological distress during pregnancy: results from the National Perinatal Survey, France, 2016 [2022]
  • 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]
  • Neurology
    • Investigating the Long-term Effect of Pregnancy on the Course of Multiple Sclerosis Using Causal Inference [2023]
    • Incidence and Time Trends of Pregnancy-Related Stroke Between 2010 and 2018: The Nationwide CONCEPTION Study [2022]
• High-income countries
  • BMC Psychiatry
    • Screening programs for common maternal mental health disorders among perinatal women: report of the systematic review of evidence [2022]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Medical Journal
    • Update to the Hong Kong Epilepsy Guideline: evidence-based recommendations for clinical management of women with epilepsy throughout the reproductive cycle [2020]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Pharmacology
    • Psychopharmacoteratophobia: Excessive fear of malformation associated with prescribing psychotropic drugs during pregnancy: An Indian perspective [2015]
  • Journal of Public Health Policy
    • Recommendations for maternal mental health policy in India [2023]
• International
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
    • Lithium Exposure During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Safety and Efficacy Outcomes [2020]
  • Archives of Women's Mental Health
    • Indigenous approaches to perinatal mental health: a systematic review with critical interpretive synthesis [2023]
    • Associations between maternal psychological distress and mother-infant bonding: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
    • An international position paper on mother-infant (perinatal) mental health, with guidelines for clinical practice [2016]
  • BMC Pharmacology & Toxicology
    • Olanzapine in pregnancy and breastfeeding: a review of data from global safety surveillance [2013]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Measurement of pregnancy-related anxiety worldwide: a systematic review [2022]
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence of insomnia in the third trimester of pregnancy [2021]
  • BMC Psychiatry
    • Mental health-related telemedicine interventions for pregnant women and new mothers: a systematic literature review [2023]
  • BMJ Open
    • Meta-review of the barriers and facilitators to women accessing perinatal mental healthcare [2023]
  • 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]
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
    • Maternal Suicide Ideation and Behaviour During Pregnancy and the First Postpartum Year: A Systematic Review of Psychological and Psychosocial Risk Factors [2022]
  • International Breastfeeding Journal
    • Efficacy of behavioral interventions to improve maternal mental health and breastfeeding outcomes: a systematic review [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Body Image Assessment Tools in Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review [2023]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Epilepsy during pregnancy: focus on management strategies [2016]
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
    • Measures of suicidality in perinatal women: A systematic review [2023]
  • Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
    • Benzodiazepine Use During Pregnancy Alone or in Combination With an Antidepressant and Congenital Malformations: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2019]
  • Lancet Public Health
    • The global burden of perinatal common mental health disorders and substance use among migrant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Midwifery
    • Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce anxiety in pregnancy, labour and postpartum: A systematic review [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Women with perinatal suicidal ideation-A scoping review of the biopsychosocial risk factors to inform health service provision and research [2022]
• 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]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Gender Transformative Interventions for Perinatal Mental Health in Low and Middle Income Countries-A Scoping Review [2022]
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
    • Prevalence of perinatal anxiety in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • 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]
  • 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]
• Nepal
  • Nepal Journal of Epidemiology
    • Mental Health Issues in Pregnant Women in Nepal [2015]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Maternal Mental Health Service Provision in New Zealand: Stocktake of district health board services [2021]
    • Healthy Beginnings: Developing perinatal and infant mental health services in New Zealand [2012]
  • Starship
    • AED use in pregnancy - management of babies exposed to anti-epileptic drugs in utero [2019]
• Nordic countries, United States
  • Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
    • Atomoxetine in Early Pregnancy and the Prevalence of Major Congenital Malformations: A Multinational Study [2023]
• Norway
  • Epilepsia
    • Prevalence of self-reported emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and association with fear of childbirth in pregnant women with epilepsy: The Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal complications in pregnancy and childbirth for women with epilepsy: Time trends in a nationwide cohort [2019]
    • Medication Use before, during, and after Pregnancy among Women with Eating Disorders: A Study from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study [2015]
• Norway, Sweden
  • European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • Prevalence trends and individual patterns of ADHD medication use in pregnancy in Norway and Sweden, 2010-2019 [2023]
• Poland
  • Ginekologia Polska
    • Managing epilepsy in women of childbearing age — Polish Society of Epileptology and Polish Gynecological Society Guidelines [2017]
  • Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska
    • Recommendations for neurological, obstetrical and gynaecological care in women with multiple sclerosis: a statement by a working group convened by the Section of Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology of the Polish Neurological Society [2020]
  • Psychiatria Polska
    • Recommendations of the Polish Psychiatric Association regarding the treatment of affective disorders in women of childbearing age. Part II: Bipolar disorder [2019]
• Qatar
  • Heliyon
    • Generalized and pregnancy-related anxiety prevalence and predictors among pregnant women attending primary health care in Qatar, 2018–2019 [2020]
• South Asia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Perceptions and attitudes around perinatal mental health in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: a systematic review of qualitative data [2022]
• Spain
  • Neurología (English Edition)
    • Headache: pregnancy and breastfeeding. Recommendations of the Spanish Society of Neurology’s Headache Study Group [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
    • Women with epilepsy in sub–Saharan Africa: A review of the reproductive health challenges and perspectives for management [2019]
• Sweden
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Pregnancy outcome in women with cerebral palsy: A nationwide population-based cohort study [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Neonatal morbidity after fetal exposure to antipsychotics: a national register-based study [2022]
  • Neurology
    • Antiseizure medication use during pregnancy and risk of ASD and ADHD in children [2020]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Paternal and maternal psychiatric history and risk of preterm and early term birth: A nationwide study using Swedish registers [2023]
• 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
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Disparities in who is asked about their perinatal mental health: an analysis of cross-sectional data from consecutive national maternity surveys [2023]
  • BMJ Open
    • A UK clinical audit addressing the quality of prescribing of sodium valproate for bipolar disorder in women of childbearing age [2018]
  • British Association for Psychopharmacology
    • Withdrawal of, and alternatives to, valproate-containing medicines in girls and women of childbearing potential who have a psychiatric illness [2018]
    • British Association for Psychopharmacology consensus guidance on the use of psychotropic medication preconception, in pregnancy and postpartum 2017 [2017]
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • First do no harm: valproate and medicines safety in pregnancy [2020]
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Maternal Mental Health Pathway
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • SSRI/SNRI antidepressant medicines: small increased risk of postpartum haemorrhage when used in the month before delivery [2021]
    • Antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy: updated advice following comprehensive safety review [2021]
    • Valproate Pregnancy Prevention Programme: temporary advice for management during coronavirus (COVID-19) [2020]
    • Valproate medicines and serious harms in pregnancy: new Annual Risk Acknowledgement Form and clinical guidance from professional bodies to support compliance with the Pregnancy Prevention Programme [2019]
    • Fingolimod (Gilenya): increased risk of congenital malformations; new contraindication during pregnancy and in women of childbearing potential not using effective contraception [2019]
    • Valproate medicines (Epilim, Depakote): contraindicated in women and girls of childbearing potential unless conditions of Pregnancy Prevention Programme are met [2018]
    • Valproate medicines (Epilim, Depakote): Pregnancy Prevention Programme materials online [2018]
    • Valproate and developmental disorders: new alert asking for patient review and further consideration of risk minimisation measures [2017]
    • Medicines related to valproate: risk of abnormal pregnancy outcomes [2015]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance [2020]
    • Antenatal and postnatal mental health [2016]
  • NHS England
    • Community pharmacy preventing harm from valproate – Pharmacy Quality Scheme audit report 2019-20 [2022]
    • 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
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Valproate Use In Women and Girls of Childbearing Years [2019]
    • Epilepsy in Pregnancy [2016]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Psychiatric illness
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Maternal, Fetal, and Child Outcomes of Mental Health Treatments in Women: A Systematic Review of Perinatal Pharmacologic Interventions [2021]
    • Management of Primary Headaches in Pregnancy [2020]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Maternal Phenylketonuria [2013]
  • American College of Cardiology
    • Maternal Stroke: A Call for Action [2021]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Screening and Diagnosis of Mental Health Conditions During Pregnancy and Postpartum [2023]
    • Obstetric Management of Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries [2020]
    • Management of Women With Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Deficiency (Phenylketonuria) [2020]
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Severe Maternal Morbidity and Maternal Mortality in Women With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities [2021]
  • Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
    • Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders [2022]
  • 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]
  • Current Psychiatry Reports
    • Perinatal Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Epidemiology, Phenomenology, Etiology, and Treatment [2022]
  • Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
    • Continuation of psychiatric medications during pregnancy [2023]
  • Multiple Sclerosis International
    • What Do Healthcare Providers Advise Women with Multiple Sclerosis Regarding Pregnancy? [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in pregnancy: National trends of treatment, predictors, and outcomes [2023]
  • Schizophrenia Research
    • Atypical Antipsychotic Use during Pregnancy and Birth Defect Risk: National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–2011 [2020]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO guide for integration of perinatal mental health in maternal and child health services [2022]
    • mhGAP Intervention Guide - Version 2.0 [2019]
    • Maternal mental health
• {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]
• Asia, Europe, United States
  • BMC Medicine
    • Gestational weight gain across continents and ethnicity: systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal and infant outcomes in more than one million women [2018]
• Asia-Pacific
  • Nutrients
    • Weight Gain and Nutrition during Pregnancy: An Analysis of Clinical Practice Guidelines in the Asia-Pacific Region [2022]
• Australia
  • Better Safer Care
    • Obesity during pregnancy, birth and postpartum
  • Journal of Pregnancy
    • Australian Pregnant Women's Awareness of Gestational Weight Gain and Dietary Guidelines: Opportunity for Action [2016]
  • Public Health Research and Practice
    • Optimising weight gain in pregnancy: key challenges and solutions for maternal obesity prevention [2022]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Obesity and pregnancy (including post bariatric surgery)
• Australia, Europe, United States
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
    • Full-term induction of labor vs expectant management and cesarean delivery in women with obesity: systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Management of Obesity in Pregnancy [2022]
• Australia, United Kingdom
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal and perinatal outcomes in pregnant women with BMI >50: An international collaborative study [2019]
• Belgium
  • Obesity Facts
    • Reappraisal of Gestational Weight Gain Recommendations in Obese Pregnant Women: A Population-Based Study of 337,590 Births [2020]
• Brazil
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Gestational weight gain charts: results from the Brazilian Maternal and Child Nutrition Consortium [2021]
  • Clinics
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of gestational weight gain recommendations and related outcomes in Brazil [2015]
  • Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
    • Different methods for assessing gestational weight gain and its association with birth weight [2021]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Prevalence and temporal trends in prepregnancy nutritional status and gestational weight gain of adult women followed in the Brazilian Food and Nutrition Surveillance System from 2008 to 2018 [2022]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Guidelines on how to monitor gestational weight gain during antenatal care [2023]
• Cameroon
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Associations of body mass index and gestational weight gain with term pregnancy outcomes in urban Cameroon: a retrospective cohort study in a tertiary hospital [2015]
• Canada
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Knowledge translation tool to improve pregnant women’s awareness of gestational weight gain goals and risks of gaining outside recommendations: a non-randomized intervention study [2015]
    • Contribution of prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain to adverse neonatal outcomes: population attributable fractions for Canada [2015]
    • Documentation of guideline adherence in antenatal records across maternal weight categories: a chart review [2014]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Widespread misconceptions about pregnancy for women living with obesity [2021]
    • Gestational weight gain trajectories in primary care [2016]
    • Distribution of pregnancy-related weight measures [2016]
  • CMAJ Open
    • Prevalence of and risk factors for excess weight gain in pregnancy: a cross-sectional study using survey data [2021]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Effect of Maternal Weight on Pregnancy Outcomes
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Pregnancy and Maternal Obesity Part 2: Team Planning for Delivery and Postpartum Care [2019]
    • Pregnancy and Maternal Obesity Part 1: Pre-conception and Prenatal Care [2019]
    • Obesity in Pregnancy [2018]
• Canada, France
  • Scientific Reports
    • Impact of maternal obesity on the incidence of pregnancy complications in France and Canada [2017]
• Canada, United States
  • Annals of Medicine
    • Effectiveness of multimodal nutrition interventions during pregnancy to achieve 2009 Institute of Medicine gestational weight gain guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• Chile
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Effectiveness of a normative nutrition intervention (diet, physical activity and breastfeeding) on maternal nutrition and offspring growth: the Chilean maternal and infant nutrition cohort study (CHiMINCs) [2015]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Association among pre-pregnancy body mass index, gestational weight gain and neonatal birth weight: a prospective cohort study in China [2020]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Analysis and Comparison of Early Childhood Nutritional Outcomes Among Offspring of Chinese Women Under the Chinese 2021 and US 2009 Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines [2022]
  • Journal of Epidemiology
    • Gestational weight gain charts by gestational age and body mass index for Chinese women: A population-based follow-up study [2019]
  • Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific
    • Optimal gestational weight gain for Chinese women - analysis from a longitudinal cohort with childhood follow-up [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Birth Weight: A Cohort Study in China [2015]
    • Joint and Independent Associations of Gestational Weight Gain and Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index with Outcomes of Pregnancy in Chinese Women: A Retrospective Cohort Study [2015]
  • Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
    • Investigation of optimal gestational weight gain based on the occurrence of adverse pregnancy outcomes for Chinese women: a prospective cohort study [2021]
• Denmark
  • Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Obesity in pregnancy [2017]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Maternal weight change from prepregnancy to 18 months postpartum and subsequent risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in Danish women: A cohort study [2021]
• Ethiopia
  • BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
    • Effect of overweight/obesity on caesarean section occurrence among reproductive-aged women in Ethiopia: a secondary data analysis [2021]
• Europe
  • WHO European Region
    • Health care services for prevention of obesity and diet-related diseases
    • Appropriate weight gain during pregnancy
• Europe, North America, Oceania
  • BMC Medicine
    • Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America, and Oceania [2018]
• Finland
  • Anaesthesia
    • Labour analgesia in obese and morbidly obese parturients: a nationwide register analysis in Finland from 2004 to 2018 [2022]
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Incidence of obese parturients and the outcomes of their pregnancies: A nationwide register study in Finland [2022]
• France
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Gestational weight gain adequacy and intrapartum oxytocin and cesarean section use: Observational population-based study in France [2023]
  • BMJ Open
    • Maternal characteristics associated with gestational weight gain in France: a population-based, nationally representative study [2021]
• Germany
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Secular trends in pregnancy weight gain in German women and their influences on foetal outcome: a hospital-based study [2014]
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
    • Obesity and Pregnancy. Guideline of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (S3-Level, AWMF Registry No. 015-081, June 2019) [2021]
• Ghana
  • BMC Obesity
    • Socio-demographic trends in overweight and obesity among parous and nulliparous women in Ghana [2016]
• Greece
  • Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
    • Association between gestational weight gain and risk of obesity in preadolescence: a longitudinal study (1997–2007) of 5,125 children in Greece [2017]
• High-income countries
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Facilitators and barriers influencing weight management behaviours during pregnancy: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research [2022]
• Iceland
  • PLoS ONE
    • The combined effect of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain on the risk of pre-labour and intrapartum caesarean section-The ICE-MCH study [2023]
• India
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Population estimates, consequences, and risk factors of obesity among pregnant and postpartum women in India: Results from a national survey and policy recommendations [2020]
• International
  • AJP Reports
    • Nutrition and Exercise Strategies to Prevent Excessive Pregnancy Weight Gain: A Meta-analysis [2019]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Monitoring gestational weight gain and prepregnancy BMI using the 2009 IOM guidelines in the global population: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
    • Gestational weight gain outside the Institute of Medicine recommendations and adverse pregnancy outcomes: analysis using individual participant data from randomised trials [2019]
    • No global consensus: a cross-sectional survey of maternal weight policies [2014]
  • Current Obesity Reports
    • Addressing Obesity in Preconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum: A Review of the Literature [2022]
  • Frontiers in Medicine
    • Physical Exercise vs. Metformin to Improve Delivery- and Newborn-Related Outcomes Among Pregnant Women With Overweight: A Network Meta-Analysis [2021]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Management of prepregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum obesity from the FIGO Pregnancy and Non-Communicable Diseases Committee: A FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) guideline [2020]
    • FIGO Pregnancy Obesity and Nutrition Initiative (PONI) [2019]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Predictors of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Pregnant Women Living with Obesity: A Systematic Review [2022]
  • JAMA Internal Medicine
    • Association of Antenatal Diet and Physical Activity-Based Interventions With Gestational Weight Gain and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Exercise versus Metformin to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes among Overweight Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis [2021]
    • Health in Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum Global Alliance: International Network Preconception Research Priorities for the Prevention of Maternal Obesity and Related Pregnancy and Long-Term Complications [2019]
  • Obesity Reviews
    • Association between maternal adiposity measures and adverse maternal outcomes of pregnancy: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
    • A meta-review of systematic reviews of lifestyle interventions for reducing gestational weight gain in women with overweight or obesity [2021]
    • Guidelines for the management of pregnant women with obesity: A systematic review [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Estimated global overweight and obesity burden in pregnant women based on panel data model [2018]
  • Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
    • Periconceptional biomarkers for maternal obesity: a systematic review [2023]
  • Therapeutic Advances in Reproductive Health
    • A review of maternal overweight and obesity and its impact on cardiometabolic outcomes during pregnancy and postpartum [2021]
• Italy
  • BMC Public Health
    • Monitoring gestational weight gain: setting up a regional surveillance system in Italy [2023]
• Japan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Gestational weight gain mediates the effects of energy intake on birth weight among singleton pregnancies in the Japan Environment and Children's Study [2022]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine Research
    • Optimal Weight Gain During Pregnancy in Japanese Women [2016]
  • Journal of Epidemiology
    • Gestational weight gain growth charts adapted to Japanese pregnancies using a Bayesian approach in a longitudinal study: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study [2021]
    • Pre-pregnancy BMI-specific optimal gestational weight gain for women in Japan [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Pregnancy Outcomes Based on Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Japanese Women [2016]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Optimal gestational weight gain for underweight pregnant women in Japan [2019]
    • Investigation of optimal weight gain during pregnancy for Japanese Women [2017]
• Latin America
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • Comparison of Three Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines Under Use in Latin America [2021]
• Low and middle income countries
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Gestational weight gain in 4 low- and middle-income countries and associations with birth outcomes: a secondary analysis of the Women First Trial [2021]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Gestational weight gain in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling analysis using nationally representative data [2020]
• Malawi
  • Reproductive Health
    • Maternal overweight and obesity and the risk of caesarean birth in Malawi [2019]
• Malaysia
  • Nutrients
    • Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity from Mothers to Their Offspring: Trends and Associated Factors Derived from the Malaysian National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) [2022]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Guidance for Healthy Weight Gain in Pregnancy [2014]
• Norway
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Associations of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain with pregnancy outcome and postpartum weight retention: a prospective observational cohort study [2014]
• Republic of Korea
  • BMJ Open
    • Secular trends in postpartum weight retention from 2003 to 2012: a nationwide, population-based, retrospective, longitudinal study in South Korea [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Is it appropriate for Korean women to adopt the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations for gestational weight gain? [2017]
  • Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
    • Determining optimal gestational weight gain in the Korean population: a retrospective cohort study [2017]
• South and Southeast Asia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Association of maternal obesity with fetal and neonatal death: Evidence from South and South-East Asian countries [2021]
• South Asia
  • Obesity Reviews
    • Effects of maternal anthropometrics on pregnancy outcomes in South Asian women: a systematic review [2018]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Annals of Global Health
    • Country-Level Analysis of the Association between Maternal Obesity and Neonatal Mortality in 34 Sub-Saharan African Countries [2019]
  • Life
    • Maternal Obesity as a Risk Factor for Caesarean Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Gestational weight gain in sub-Saharan Africa: Estimation based on pseudo-cohort design [2021]
    • Gestational weight gain and its effect on birth outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Maternal obesity and Caesarean delivery in sub-Saharan Africa [2016]
• Sweden
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Relation between perinatal outcome and gestational duration in term primiparous pregnancies stratified by body mass index [2022]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prolonged pregnancy and stillbirth among women with overweight or obesity - a population-based study in Sweden including 64,632 women [2023]
  • BMJ
    • Risk of major congenital malformations in relation to maternal overweight and obesity severity: cohort study of 1.2 million singletons [2017]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Inter-pregnancy Weight Change and Risks of Severe Birth-Asphyxia-Related Outcomes in Singleton Infants Born at Term: A Nationwide Swedish Cohort Study [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Body mass index and gestational weight gain in migrant women by birth regions compared with Swedish-born women: A registry linkage study of 0.5 million pregnancies [2020]
    • Prediction of stillbirth in women with overweight or obesity—A register-based cohort study [2018]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Obesity rates in two generations of Swedish women entering pregnancy, and associated obesity risk among adult daughters [2015]
• Taiwan
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Decreased Physical Activity during Pregnancy Is Associated with Excessive Gestational Weight Gain [2021]
    • Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes in Taiwan: A Population-Based Birth Cohort Study [2020]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Inadequate gestational weight gain contributes to increasing rates of low birth weight in Taiwan: 2011–2016 nationwide surveys [2021]
    • Gestational weight gain and risks for adverse perinatal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study based on the 2009 Institute of Medicine guidelines [2015]
• Thailand
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prevalence and related factors of inappropriate gestational weight gain among pregnant women with overweight/ obesity in Thailand [2023]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Healthy weight services in England before, during and after pregnancy: a mixed methods approach [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Clinical guidelines for the management of weight during pregnancy: a qualitative evidence synthesis of practice recommendations across NHS Trusts in England [2023]
    • Maternal obesity classes, preterm and post-term birth: a retrospective analysis of 479,864 births in England [2019]
    • Obesity and normal birth: A qualitative study of clinician’s management of obese pregnant women during labour [2015]
    • Existing maternal obesity guidelines may increase inequalities between ethnic groups: a national epidemiological study of 502,474 births in England [2012]
  • BMJ Open
    • Cohort study of high maternal body mass index and the risk of adverse pregnancy and delivery outcomes in Scotland [2020]
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Obesity in pregnant women: a primary care perspective on pre-conception counselling and the role of supplements [2020]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Guidelines and interventions for obesity during pregnancy [2012]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Weight management before, during and after pregnancy [2010]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Care of Women with Obesity in Pregnancy [2018]
• United States
  • Advances in Nutrition
    • Racial-Ethnic Differences in Pregnancy-Related Weight [2012]
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Counseling and Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2021]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Weight Gain During Pregnancy [2013]
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
    • Gestational Weight Gain and Birth Outcome: A Comparison of Methods of Accounting for Gestational Age [2022]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Trends in gestational weight gain: the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2000—2009 [2015]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The effect of the 2009 revised U.S. guidelines for gestational weight gain on maternal and infant health: a quasi-experimental study [2023]
  • 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]
  • Cureus
    • Increasing Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index and Pregnancy Outcomes in the United States [2022]
  • Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Optimizing Weight for Maternal and Infant Health – Tenable, or Too Late? [2014]
  • Healthcare
    • Impact of Pre-Pregnancy Weight and Gestational Weight Gain on Birth Outcomes by Nativity in the United States: A Systematic Review [2017]
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
    • Time to change weight gain recommendations for pregnant women with obesity [2019]
  • Journal of Environmental and Public Health
    • Prevalence and Social and Built Environmental Determinants of Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity in 68 Major Metropolitan Cities of the United States, 2013–2016 [2021]
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
    • Pregnancy-Related Weight Gain and the Obesity Epidemic-a Missed Opportunity: Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Recommendations [2022]
  • Journal of Obesity
    • Marked Disparities in Pre-Pregnancy Obesity and Overweight Prevalence among US Women by Race/Ethnicity, Nativity/Immigrant Status, and Sociodemographic Characteristics, 2012–2014 [2019]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Trends in Prepregnancy Obesity and Association With Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in the United States, 2013 to 2018 [2021]
  • National Academies Press
    • Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines - Institute of Medicine (US) and National Research Council (US) Committee to Reexamine IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines [2009]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Association Between Gestational Weight Gain and Perinatal Outcomes [2018]
    • Inadequate weight gain in overweight and obese pregnant women: what is the effect on fetal growth? [2014]
    • Pregnancy outcomes with weight gain above or below the 2009 Institute of Medicine guidelines [2013]
  • 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]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinics of North America
    • Childbearing and Obesity in Women: Weight Before, During, and After Pregnancy [2009]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Associations between pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain, and prenatal diet quality in a national sample [2019]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Healthy Weight and Weight Gain In Pregnancy: Behavioral Counseling Interventions [2021]
• Uruguay
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
    • Excessive Maternal Weight and Diabetes Are Risk Factors for Macrosomia: A Cross-Sectional Study of 42,663 Pregnancies in Uruguay [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Obstetrics, perinatology

• Africa
  • WHO African Region
    • A Pocket Guide for Clinical Management of Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies in Africa [2022]
    • Maternal Health
• Australia
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    • Mothers & babies
  • Better Safer Care
    • Maternity ehandbook
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines
• Cambodia
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Assessing maternal and newborn hospital data in Cambodia [2018]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Interdisciplinary Care Approach for Perinatal Patients in Acute Care Settings: Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Guidelines & Standards
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care: National Guidelines [2017]
    • Perinatal Health Indicators 2013: a Surveillance Report by the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Perinatal Surveillance System [2015]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Investigation and Management of Non-immune Fetal Hydrops [2018]
    • Delayed Child-Bearing [2017]
• Denmark
  • BMJ Open
    • Obstetric and non-obstetric surgery during pregnancy: A 20-year Danish population-based prevalence study [2019]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • 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
  • Euro-Peristat
    • Linking databases on perinatal health: a review of the literature and current practices in Europe [2016]
  • WHO European Region
    • Mental health: fact sheet on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): health targets [2018]
    • Maternal and newborn health EURO
• France
  • Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
    • Results of the 2021 French National Perinatal Survey and trends in perinatal health in metropolitan France since 1995 [2022]
• 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]
• Indonesia
  • Nutrients
    • Predictors of Poor Neonatal Outcomes among Pregnant Women in Indonesia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
• International
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
    • Pregnancy outcomes at maternal age over 45 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Indicators for monitoring maternal and neonatal quality care: a systematic review [2019]
    • eRegistries: indicators for the WHO Essential Interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health [2016]
    • eRegistries: governance for electronic maternal and child health registries [2016]
    • eRegistries: Electronic registries for maternal and child health [2016]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Developing and applying a 'living guidelines' approach to WHO recommendations on maternal and perinatal health [2019]
    • Mapping the landscape of global programmes to evaluate health interventions in pregnancy: the need for harmonised approaches, standards and tools [2018]
  • Médecins Sans Frontières
    • Essential obstetric and newborn care [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • “What gets measured better gets done better”: The landscape of validation of global maternal and newborn health indicators through key informant interviews [2019]
    • Measures matter: A scoping review of maternal and newborn indicators [2018]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2020 [2021]
• Kosovo
  • Implementation Science
    • Determinants of implementation of maternal health guidelines in Kosovo: mixed methods study [2013]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Report on Indigenous Women’s Maternal Health in Latin America and the Caribbean. Summary [2023]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Are the poorest poor being left behind? Estimating global inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health [2020]
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
    • Low- and middle-income countries face many common barriers to implementation of maternal health evidence products [2016]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Use of a participatory quality assessment and improvement tool for maternal and neonatal hospital care. Part 2: Review of the results of quality cycles and of factors influencing change [2020]
    • Use of a participatory quality assessment and improvement tool for maternal and neonatal hospital care. Part 1: Review of implementation features and observed quality gaps in 25 countries [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Assessing the Effect of mHealth Interventions in Improving Maternal and Neonatal Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • Changes in the health systems and policy environment for maternal and newborn health, 2008-2018: An analysis of data from 78 low-income and middle-income countries [2023]
• 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 African Region
    • Mauritius Maternal and Child Health Handbook [2021]
• Netherlands
  • Midwifery
    • Trends in perinatal outcomes of women with chronic medical conditions: A 10-year population-based study in the Netherlands [2023]
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Maternity Tables 2013 [2015]
    • Report on Maternity - series
• Nigeria
  • Health Promotion Perspectives
    • Promoting evidence informed policy making in Nigeria: a review of the maternal, newborn and child health policy development process [2017]
    • An assessment of maternal, newborn and child health implementation studies in Nigeria: implications for evidence informed policymaking and practice [2016]
• Norway
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Adverse events reporting by obstetric units in Norway as part of their quality assurance and patient safety work: an analysis of practice [2021]
• PAHO
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Maternal Health
• Philippines
  • Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal
    • Guidelines and training for maternal and newborn care post-Haiyan [2015]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Social Inequality in Birth Outcomes in Korea, 1995-2008 [2013]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO South-East Asia Region
    • Improving the quality of care for mothers, newborns and children in health facilities: learner manual. Version 3 [2020]
    • Improving the quality of care for mothers, newborns and children in health facilities: facilitator manual. Version 3 [2020]
• Sri Lanka
  • Ministry of Health Sri Lanka
    • National Guideline for Maternal Care - Volume III [2015]
    • National Guideline for Maternal Care - Volume II [2015]
    • National Guideline for Maternal Care - Volume I [2013]
    • Maternal Care Package - A Guide to Field Healthcare Workers [2011]
• 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]
• Uganda
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Trends in inequality in maternal and child health and health care in Uganda: Analysis of the Uganda demographic and health surveys [2023]
• United Kingdom
  • Healthcare Improvement Scotland
    • Pregnancy and newborn screening standards [2019]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Pregnancy
  • NHS England
    • Care of women who are pregnant and post-natal in detained settings service specification [2022]
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
    • Child and maternal health statistics
    • Child and Maternal Health
  • Public Health Scotland
    • Births in Scotland
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Pregnancy at Age 35 Years or Older [2022]
    • 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 the American Heart Association
    • Temporal Trends in Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Birthing Individuals Aged 15 to 44 Years in the United States, 2007 to 2019 [2022]
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • Implementing CDC’s Level of Care Assessment Tool (LOCATe): A National Collaboration to Improve Maternal and Child Health [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]
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Maternal health in Western Pacific
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health: a guide for country programme managers [2022]
    • Improving the quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health: implementation guide for national, district and facility levels [2022]
    • Five functions to improve quality of care for maternal newborn and child health [2021]
    • Integrating stakeholder and community engagement in quality of care initiatives for maternal, newborn and child health [2020]
    • Quality of care for Maternal and Newborn- a monitoring framework for network countries [2019]
    • Quality, equity, dignity: the network to improve quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health – strategic objectives [2018]
    • Defining competent maternal and newborn health professionals: background document to the 2018 joint statement by WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, ICM, ICN, FIGO and IPA: definition of skilled health personnel providing care during childbirth [2018]
    • Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health: a toolkit for implementation [2017]
    • WHO recommendations on maternal health: guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee [2017]
    • WHO recommendations on health promotion interventions for maternal and newborn health 2015 [2015]
    • Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care [2015]
    • Consultation on improving measurement of the quality of maternal, newborn and child care in health facilities [2014]
    • Counselling for maternal and newborn health care [2013]
    • Monitoring maternal, newborn and child health : understanding key progress indicators [2011]
    • WHO recommended interventions for improving maternal and newborn health : integrated management of pregnancy and childbirth [2009]
    • Education material for teachers of midwifery : midwifery education modules [2008]
    • The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network)
    • Mother and Newborn Information for Tracking Outcomes and Results (MoNITOR)
    • Maternal health
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Trauma in pregnancy
    • Thyroid diseases in pregnancy
    • Substance use in pregnancy
    • Stillbirth, neonatal mortality
    • Smoking in pregnancy
    • Skin diseases in pregnancy
    • Rh isoimmunization
    • Respiratory tract diseases, hypersensitivity in pregnancy
    • Prolonged pregnancy
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Prenatal nutrition, dietary supplements in pregnancy
    • Pregnancy tests
    • Pregnancy in diabetics, pre-existing diabetes
    • Preeclampsia, eclampsia, hypertension in pregnancy
    • Preconception care
    • Obesity in pregnancy, gestational weight gain
    • Neurologic and mental disorders in pregnancy
    • Neural tube defects, folic acid
    • Neonatology
    • Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, hyperemesis gravidarum
    • Musculoskeletal diseases in pregnancy
    • Multiple pregnancy
    • Medications in pregnancy
    • Maternity services
    • Maternal mortality and morbidity
    • Maternal and neonatal infections
    • Labor, delivery, postpartum
    • Kidney diseases in pregnancy
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Gestational diabetes
    • Fetal therapy
    • Fetal maturation, antenatal corticosteroids
    • Fetal growth restriction
    • Fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol in pregnancy
    • Exercise and physical activity in pregnancy
    • Environmental exposures in pregnancy
    • Embolism and thrombosis in pregnancy
    • Digestive system diseases in pregnancy
    • Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy
    • Breast cancer and pregnancy
    • Bleeding in pregnancy, placenta diseases
    • Autoimmune diseases in pregnancy
    • Antenatal care
    • Adolescent pregnancy

Preconception care

• Africa
  • Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
    • Pre-conception counselling for key cardiovascular conditions in Africa: optimising pregnancy outcomes [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Mothers’ utilization and associated factors of preconception care in Africa, a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Interconception care [2020]
    • Preconception care [2018]
  • Fertility Society of Australia
    • Reproductive carrier screening [2021]
    • Genetics and genomics [2021]
  • Public Health Research and Practice
    • Policies and healthcare to support preconception planning and weight management: optimising long-term health for women and children [2022]
  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
    • Preventive activities prior to pregnancy [2021]
  • Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
    • Setting Preconception Care Priorities in Australia Using a Delphi Technique [2022]
• Australia, Europe, United States
  • Lancet Public Health
    • Addressing reproductive health needs across the life course: an integrated, community-based model combining contraception and preconception care [2023]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Pre-pregnancy Counselling [2021]
    • Genetic carrier screening [2019]
• Belgium
  • Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
    • Systematic development of an evidence-based website on preconception care [2016]
• Belize
  • Ministry of Health and Wellness
    • Preconception care and obstetrics [2018]
• 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]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Nationwide-free preconception care strategy: Experience from China [2022]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • Summary report on the informal working group on promoting preconception care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt 7–8 September 2015 [2016]
    • Summary report on the meeting on promoting preconception care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Muscat, Oman 25–27 March 2015 [2015]
• Ethiopia
  • Reproductive Health
    • Knowledge and utilisation of preconception care and associated factors among women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
• India
  • Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
    • Good Clinical Practice Recommendations on Preconception Care [2016]
• International
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Counseling and surveillance of obstetrical risks for female childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors: recommendations from the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group [2021]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Paternal preconception modifiable risk factors for adverse pregnancy and offspring outcomes: a review of contemporary evidence from observational studies [2023]
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Effectiveness of preconception interventions in primary care: a systematic review [2022]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Outcomes of an International Workshop on Preconception Expanded Carrier Screening: Some Considerations for Governments [2017]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Prevention of noncommunicable diseases by interventions in the preconception period: A FIGO position paper for action by healthcare practitioners [2020]
  • Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
    • A Systematic Review of Clinical Guidelines for Preconception Care [2022]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Nutrients
    • Effects of Preconception Care and Periconception Interventions on Maternal Nutritional Status and Birth Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2020]
• Malaysia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping [2016]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Planning is not equivalent to preparing, how Dutch women perceive their pregnancy planning in relation to preconceptional lifestyle behaviour change - a cross-sectional study [2022]
    • Associations between periconceptional lifestyle behaviours and adverse pregnancy outcomes [2021]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO South-East Asia Region
    • Preconception care [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • Current state of preconception care in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic scoping review [2022]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Health behaviours in 131,182 UK women planning pregnancy [2021]
  • Public Health England
    • Preconception care: making the case
  • UK Preconception Partnership
    • Women's preconception health in England: a report card based on cross-sectional analysis of national maternity services data from 2018/2019 [2023]
    • Preconception care in primary care: supporting patients to have healthier pregnancies and babies [2022]
    • Characterising and monitoring preconception health in England: a review of national population-level indicators and core data sources [2022]
    • A wake-up call for preconception health: a clinical review [2021]
• United States
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
    • Preconception Care (Position Paper) [2022]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Prepregnancy counseling: Committee Opinion No. 762 [2019]
  • American Family Physician
    • Recommendations for Preconception Counseling and Care [2013]
  • American Journal of Men's Health
    • Men's Preconception Health and Fertility Intentions: A Latent Class Analysis Approach [2022]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
    • Preconception care and severe maternal morbidity in the United States [2022]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Disparities in Preconception Health Indicators — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2015, and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2013–2014 [2018]
    • Core State Preconception Health Indicators — Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009 [2014]
    • Preconception Care
  • Health Affairs
    • ACA Medicaid Expansions Increased Preconception Health Counseling, Folic Acid Intake, and Effective Postpartum Contraception [2020]
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • Surveillance Indicators for Women’s Preconception Care [2020]
    • Sexual Orientation Disparities in Preconception Health [2020]
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes
    • Interconception Care for Primary Care Providers: Consensus Recommendations on Preconception and Postpartum Management of Reproductive-Age Patients With Medical Comorbidities [2021]
  • Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
    • Association Between Recommended Preconception Health Behaviors and Screenings and Improvements in Cardiometabolic Outcomes of Pregnancy [2021]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #66: Prepregnancy evaluation and pregnancy management of patients with solid organ transplants [2023]
  • Women's Health Issues
    • Preconception Health Risks among U.S. Women: Disparities at the Intersection of Disability and Race or Ethnicity [2021]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Preconception care: Maximizing the gains for maternal and child health - Policy brief [2013]
    • Preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity [2013]
    • Meeting to develop a global consensus on preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity: World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva, 6–7 February 2012: meeting report [2013]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Obstetrics, perinatology

Preeclampsia, eclampsia, hypertension in pregnancy

• Afghanistan
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prevention and management of severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in Afghanistan [2013]
• Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Maternal lipid profile and risk of pre-eclampsia in African pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Australia
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Indications for commencing aspirin for the prevention of pregnancy-induced hypertension and pre-eclampsia spectrum disorders [2022]
  • Better Safer Care
    • Hypertension in pregnancy
  • BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
    • The long-term risk of cardiovascular disease among women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines [2023]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Hypertension and pregnancy
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
    • Guideline for the Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy [2014]
• Bangladesh
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Preeclampsia and eclampsia-specific maternal mortality in Bangladesh: Levels, trends, timing, and care-seeking practices [2023]
• Bangladesh, Nigeria
  • Journal of Global Health
    • “What’s in a name?”: Exploring inconsistent and contradictory definitions and clinical guidelines for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy from published literature from Nigeria and Bangladesh [2020]
• Brazil
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
    • 7th Brazilian Guideline of Arterial Hypertension: Chapter 9 - Arterial Hypertension in pregnancy [2016]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Situational analysis of facilitators and barriers to availability and utilization of magnesium sulfate for eclampsia and severe preeclampsia in the public health system in Brazil [2016]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Prevalence of Preeclampsia in Brazil: An Integrative Review [2022]
    • Pre-eclampsia: Universal Screening or Universal Prevention for Low and Middle-Income Settings? [2021]
• Burkina Faso
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Low prevalence of high blood pressure in pregnant women in Burkina Faso: a cross-sectional study [2022]
• Canada
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Incidence and risk factors for severe preeclampsia, hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count syndrome, and eclampsia at preterm and term gestation: a population-based study [2021]
  • Hypertension Canada
    • Hypertension Canada’s 2018 Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension in Pregnancy [2018]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Maternal Hypertension in Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Prediction, Prevention, and Management [2022]
• China
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Characteristics and fetal outcomes of pregnant women with hypertensive disorders in China: a 9-year national hospital-based cohort study [2022]
  • BMJ Open
    • Associations of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A level with essential hypertension and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy in Chinese population: a meta-analysis of 20 research studies involving 3332 individuals [2015]
  • China CDC Weekly
    • Incidence and Risk Factors of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy — 8 Provinces, China, 2014–2018 [2021]
• China, Sweden
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Preeclampsia Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Pregnancy Outcomes in Sweden and China [2021]
• China, United States
  • Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
    • Differences in epidemiology of patients with preeclampsia between China and the US (Review) [2021]
• Colombia
  • Colombia Médica
    • Reduction of maternal mortality due to preeclampsia in Colombia-an interrupted time-series analysis [2014]
• Croatia
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Croatian society for perinatal medicine: Consensus statement and recommendations for the risk assessment of preeclampsia [2021]
• Denmark
  • BMJ
    • Pre-eclampsia and risk of later kidney disease: nationwide cohort study [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and peripartum cardiomyopathy: A nationwide cohort study [2019]
• Developing countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • Role of calcium supplementation during pregnancy in reducing risk of developing gestational hypertensive disorders: a meta-analysis of studies from developing countries [2011]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Maternal and perinatal outcomes of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
    • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: a systemic review and meta-analysis [2018]
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • The impact of pregnancy induced hypertension on low birth weight in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and determinants of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Europe
  • BMJ Open
    • Use of magnesium sulfate before 32 weeks of gestation: a European population-based cohort study [2017]
• Europe, United States
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Planned delivery or expectant management in preeclampsia: an individual participant data meta-analysis [2022]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • An evaluation of the efficacy and the safety of home blood pressure monitoring in the control of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in both pre and postpartum periods: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Finland
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The diagnosis of pre-eclampsia using two revised classifications in the Finnish Pre-eclampsia Consortium (FINNPEC) cohort [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Pre-eclampsia and cardiovascular risk: a long-term nationwide cohort study on over 120 000 Finnish women [2023]
• France
  • Journal of Clinical Hypertension
    • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in France (2010-2018): The nationwide CONCEPTION study [2021]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Women With Chronic Hypertension in France (2010-2018): The Nationwide CONCEPTION Study [2023]
• Ghana
  • Women and Birth
    • A qualitative document analysis of policies influencing preeclampsia management by midwives in Ghana [2022]
• High-income countries
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Self-monitoring of blood pressure among women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a systematic review [2022]
  • Open Heart
    • Systematic review of validated case definitions to identify hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in administrative healthcare databases [2023]
• 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
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association blood pressure categories-a systematic review of the relationship with adverse pregnancy outcomes in the first half of pregnancy [2023]
    • Toward personalized management of chronic hypertension in pregnancy [2022]
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • A core outcome set for pre-eclampsia research: an international consensus development study [2020]
    • Clinical practice patterns on the use of magnesium sulphate for treatment of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia: a multi-country survey [2016]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Experiences of women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a scoping review [2022]
    • Epidemiological trends of maternal hypertensive disorders of pregnancy at the global, regional, and national levels: a population-based study [2021]
    • Are hypertensive disorders in pregnancy associated with congenital malformations in offspring? Evidence from the WHO Multicountry cross sectional survey on maternal and newborn health [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Assessment of the quality and content of national and international guidelines on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy using the AGREE II instrument [2016]
  • British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • How to manage hypertension in pregnancy effectively [2011]
  • CMAJ Open
    • Home blood pressure monitoring in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Current Hypertension Reports
    • Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Comparison of International Guidelines [2020]
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
    • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease: Current National and International Guidelines and the Need for Future Research [2019]
  • Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    • The evidence-based management of Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia - An interactive course for health professionals (2022 update) [2023]
  • Intergrowth-21st
    • International gestational age-specific centiles for blood pressure in pregnancy from the INTERGROWTH-21st Project in 8 countries: A longitudinal cohort study [2021]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and long-term cardiovascular health: FIGO Best Practice Advice [2023]
    • The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) initiative on pre-eclampsia: A pragmatic guide for first-trimester screening and prevention [2019]
  • International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ISUOG Practice Guidelines: role of ultrasound in screening for and follow-up of pre-eclampsia [2019]
  • Medicine
    • Risk of future cardiovascular diseases in different years postpartum after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Systematic literature review on the neonatal outcome of preeclampsia [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Systematic review of prediction models for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia [2020]
    • Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of International Clinical Practice Guidelines [2014]
  • Pregnancy Hypertension
    • Standardising definitions for the pre-eclampsia core outcome set: A consensus development study [2020]
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Factors effective in the prevention of Preeclampsia: A systematic review [2020]
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Multicenter screening for pre-eclampsia by maternal factors and biomarkers at 11–13 weeks' gestation: comparison with NICE guidelines and ACOG recommendations [2017]
    • Implementation of the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio for prediction and diagnosis of pre-eclampsia in singleton pregnancy: implications for clinical practice [2015]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Diagnosis and management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [2016]
  • Pregnancy Hypertension
    • Hypertension in pregnancy: Prevalence, risk factors and outcomes for women birthing in Ireland [2021]
• Italy
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Italian Advisory Board: sFlt-1/PlGF ratio and preeclampsia, state of the art and developments in diagnostic, therapeutic and clinical management [2016]
• Japan
  • Hypertension Research
    • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: definition, management, and out-of-office blood pressure measurement [2022]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMJ Open
    • Exploring digital health interventions for pregnant women at high risk for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in low-income and-middle-income countries: a scoping review [2022]
  • Global Heart
    • Prevention and Screening for Cardiometabolic Disease Following Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy in Low-Resource Settings: A Systematic Review and Delphi Study [2023]
  • 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]
• Nigeria
  • Annals of African Medicine
    • The use of magnesium sulphate for the treatment of severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [2009]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Factors influencing the use of magnesium sulphate in pre-eclampsia/eclampsia management in health facilities in Northern Nigeria: a mixed methods study [2015]
• Norway
  • Hypertension
    • Preconception Cardiovascular Risk Factor Differences Between Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia: Cohort Norway Study [2016]
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health
    • First trimester-screening for the development of preeclampsia with the use of an algorithm [2022]
    • Safety, clinical effectiveness, predictive accuracy and cost effectiveness of blood based tests for women with suspected preeclampsia [2020]
  • Pregnancy Hypertension
    • Substantial decrease in preeclampsia prevalence and risk over two decades: A population-based study of 1,153,227 deliveries in Norway [2022]
• Portugal
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
    • Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia: An Update on the Pharmacological Treatment Applied in Portugal [2018]
• Qatar
  • Qatar Medical Journal
    • A review of eclampsia in Qatar: A twenty-year study (from January 1991-December 2009) [2013]
• South Africa
  • South African Medical Journal
    • Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy: 2019 National guideline [2019]
• Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
    • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy [2022]
    • Management of hypertensive disease in pregnancy [2021]
    • Management of Eclampsia [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Systematic review of observational studies of the impact of cardiovascular risk factors on preeclampsia in sub-saharan Africa [2021]
  • Women's Health
    • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Incidence of preeclampsia in pregnant Swiss women [2015]
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • Effect of maternal hypertensive disorders during pregnancy on offspring's early childhood body weight: A population-based cohort study [2022]
    • Trends in the incidence of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Taiwan between 1998 and 2010 [2015]
• Tanzania
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Factors associated with blood pressure check-up during pregnancy among women of reproductive age in Tanzania: an analysis of data from 2015—16 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicators Survey [2021]
• Trinidad and Tobago
  • Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago
    • Hypertension in Pregnancy [2018]
• United Kingdom
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • An evaluation of the influence of the publication of the UK National Institute for health and Care Excellence’s guidance on hypertension in pregnancy: a retrospective analysis of clinical practice [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Implementation of national antenatal hypertension guidelines: a multicentre multiple methods study [2020]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis and management [2023]
    • PLGF-based testing to help diagnose suspected preterm pre-eclampsia [2022]
    • Lumella point-of-care test for assessing pre-eclampsia risk [2022]
    • Identification of hypertension in pregnancy [2021]
    • Hypertension in pregnancy [2019]
  • NHS England
    • Recommendations for digital blood pressure monitoring in maternity services [2023]
  • PharmacoEconomics - Open
    • Cost-Utility Analysis of Planned Early Delivery or Expectant Management for Late Preterm Pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX) [2022]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Pre-eclampsia
  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Comparison of diagnostic accuracy of early screening for pre-eclampsia by NICE guidelines and a method combining maternal factors and biomarkers: results of SPREE [2018]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Screening for Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force [2023]
    • Management of Postpartum Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy [2023]
    • Screening for Preeclampsia [2017]
  • American College of Cardiology
    • 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines [2018]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Clinical Guidance for the Integration of the Findings of the Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy (CHAP) Study [2022]
    • Low-Dose Aspirin Use for the Prevention of Preeclampsia and Related Morbidity and Mortality [2021]
    • Low-Dose Aspirin Use During Pregnancy [2018]
  • American Heart Association
    • Hypertension in Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Blood Pressure Goals, and Pharmacotherapy: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2022]
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Prepregnancy adherence to dietary recommendations for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in relation to risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy [2020]
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Lifestyle and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in nulliparous women in the United States: a secondary data analysis of the nuMom2b [2023]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy and Mortality at Delivery Hospitalization — United States, 2017–2019 [2022]
  • Hypertension
    • Historical and Recent Changes in Maternal Mortality Due to Hypertensive Disorders in the United States, 1979 to 2018 [2021]
    • Research Recommendations from the National Institutes of Health Workshop on Predicting, Preventing and Treating Preeclampsia [2019]
    • Estimated Impact of the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Blood Pressure Guidelines on Reproductive-Aged Women [2018]
  • Hypertension in Pregnancy
    • Prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy at or beyond 39 weeks gestational age and associated maternal complications [2023]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Estimated Prevalence of Risk Factors for Preeclampsia Among Individuals Giving Birth in the US in 2019 [2022]
    • Association of Birth Year of Pregnant Individuals With Trends in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy in the United States, 1995-2019 [2022]
  • Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
    • A Critical Review on the Use of Race in Understanding Racial Disparities in Preeclampsia [2021]
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
    • Trends in the Incidence of New-Onset Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Among Rural and Urban Areas in the United States, 2007 to 2019 [2022]
    • Temporal Trends in Pregnancy-Associated Stroke and Its Outcomes Among Women With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy [2020]
    • Maternal Race/Ethnicity, Hypertension, and Risk for Stroke During Delivery Admission [2020]
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Laboratory abnormalities in pregnancy-associated hypertension: frequency and association with pregnancy outcomes [2014]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Severe Hypertension During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2017]
  • Open Nursing Journal
    • Management of Chronic and Gestational Hypertension of Pregnancy: A Guide for Primary Care Nurse Practitioners [2018]
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
    • Chronic hypertension and risk of preterm delivery: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescents to Adult Health [2022]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Prophylactic low-dose aspirin for preeclampsia prevention—quality metric and opportunities for quality improvement [2023]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Statement: Antihypertensive therapy for mild chronic hypertension in pregnancy–The Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy trial [2022]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: A quality metric for evaluating timely treatment of severe hypertension [2022]
    • SMFM Special Statement: Quality metric for timely postpartum follow-up after severe hypertension [2022]
    • Preeclampsia: a report and recommendations of the workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Preeclampsia Foundation [2022]
    • Executive summary: Workshop on Preeclampsia, January 25–26, 2021, cosponsored by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Preeclampsia Foundation [2021]
    • SMFM Special Statement: Checklists for preeclampsia risk-factor screening to guide recommendations for prophylactic low-dose aspirin [2020]
    • SMFM Special Statement: Checklist for postpartum discharge of women with hypertensive disorders [2020]