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Australia

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Transvaginal mesh for incontinence and prolapse: Where are we now and how did we get here? [2024]

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

• Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
  • Interdisciplinary S2k Guideline: Sonography in Urogynecology [2014]

Canada

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
  • Winds of Change: Past, Present, and Future of Urogynaecology in Canada [2019]

• Ontario Health
  • Pelvic Floor Muscle Training for Stress Urinary Incontinence, Fecal Incontinence, and Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Health Technology Assessment [2024]

• Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
  • A Proactive Approach to Bladder and Bowel Management in Adults [2020]

China

• Nursing Open
  • Constructing A Core Competency Evaluation Index System for Incontinence Specialist Nurses: A Delphi Study [2026]

Europe

• European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (EBCOG) position statement on the use of laser vaginal devices for treatment of genitourinary syndrome of menopause, vaginal laxity, pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence [2024]

• European Society of Urogenital Radiology
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of pelvic floor dysfunction - joint recommendations of the ESUR and ESGAR Pelvic Floor Working Group [2017]

• Neuromodulation
  • Reprogramming Sacral Neuromodulation for Sub-Optimal Outcomes: Evidence and Recommendations for Clinical Practice [2021]

Finland

• JBI Evidence Implementation
  • Effectiveness of exercise interventions on urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in pregnant and postpartum women: umbrella review and clinical guideline development [2023]

France

• French Journal of Urology
  • Impact of new decrees on pelvic implant surgery in France: Results of a national survey among urologists and gynecologists [2026]

High-income countries

• BMJ Open
  • Continence care quality from the perspective of older adults in long-term care or in receipt of home care: a scoping review [2026]

International

• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
  • Measuring Pelvic Floor Disorder Symptoms Using Patient-Reported Instruments: Proceedings of the Consensus Meeting of the Pelvic Floor Consortium of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, the International Continence Society, the American Urogynecologic Society, and the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction [2020]

• American Urogynecologic Society
  • AUGS-IUGA Joint Clinical Consensus Statement on Enhanced Recovery After Urogynecologic Surgery [2022]
  • Joint position statement on the management of mesh-related complications for the FPMRS specialist [2020]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Pelvic floor muscle training for preventing and treating urinary and faecal incontinence in antenatal and postnatal women [2020]

• International Continence Society
  • ICS Standards 2024 [2024]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Neglect of pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence are exemplary of human rights violations towards women: moving towards a resolution [2023]
  • Review of statements on use of synthetic mesh [2019]
  • FIGO review of statements on use of synthetic mesh for pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence [2019]

• International Urogynecological Association
  • Guidance for the management of urogynecological conditions during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic [2021]
  • Effectiveness of hormones in postmenopausal pelvic floor dysfunction—International Urogynecological Association research and development—committee opinion [2020]

• Neurourology and Urodynamics
  • Do We Have the Evidence to Produce Tools to Enable the Identification and Personalization of Management of Women's Pelvic Floor Health Disorders Through the Perinatal and Perimenopausal Periods? ICI-RS 2024 [2025]

• PLOS One
  • Experiences of Indigenous peoples living with pelvic health conditions: A scoping review [2025]

Israel

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Attitudes toward conservative management of pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence with vaginal pessaries: A national survey among Israeli obstetricians and gynecologists [2025]

Saudi Arabia

• BMC Women's Health
  • Prevalence of pelvic floor dysfunction: a Saudi national survey [2022]

Sierra Leone

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Estimating the prevalence of urinary and fecal incontinence in a nationally representative survey in Sierra Leone [2014]

Spain

• BMC Public Health
  • Pelvic floor dysfunction: prevalence and associated factors [2023]

Sweden

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • The influence of pregnancy, parity, and mode of delivery on urinary incontinence and prolapse surgery-a national register study [2023]

• BMC Geriatrics
  • Urine and fecal incontinence prevalence is increased in later born 81-year old cohorts in the Swedish general elder population: data from the Good Aging in Skåne study (GÅS) [2026]

United Kingdom

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Used to Assess Surgical Interventions for Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Stress Urinary Incontinence and Mesh Complications: A Scoping Review for the Development of the APPRAISE PROM [2026]

• Health and Social Care Delivery Research
  • Understanding approaches to continence care for people living with dementia in acute hospital settings: an ethnographic study [2022]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Pelvic floor dysfunction: prevention and non-surgical management [2021]
  • Urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women: management [2019]

• NHS England
  • Service specification: perinatal pelvic health services [2023]
  • Specialised services for women with complications of mesh inserted for urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse (16 years and above) [2021]
  • Excellence in Continence Care [2018]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • RCOG Position Statement: Pelvic floor health [2023]

• UK Parliament
  • Debate on the first anniversary of the Hughes report on valproate and pelvic mesh [2025]
  • Debate on pelvic mesh and the Cumberlege review [2025]
  • Bladder and bowel continence care [2023]

United States

• American College of Radiology
  • Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in Females

• American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
  • AIUM/IUGA Practice Parameter for the Performance of Urogynecological Ultrasound Examinations: Developed in Collaboration with the ACR, the AUGS, the AUA, and the SRU [2019]

• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
  • Consensus Statement of Definitions for Anorectal Physiology Testing and Pelvic Floor Terminology (Revised) [2018]

• American Urogynecologic Society
  • Postoperative Urinary Retention [2023]
  • Foundational Science and Mechanistic Insights for a Shared Disease Model: An Expert Consensus [2022]
  • Vaginal Energy-Based Devices [2020]

• Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Primary care providers practice patterns regarding female pelvic floor disorders [2024]

• International Urogynecology Journal
  • Prevalence of Incontinence in the Black Women's Health Study [2026]

• Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Urinary, Fecal, and Dual Incontinence in Older U.S. Adults [2015]

• Journal of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nursing
  • Incontinence Management and Pressure Injury Rates in US Acute Care Hospitals: Analysis of Data From the 2018-2019 International Pressure Injury Prevalence™ (IPUP) Survey [2022]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Pelvic Floor Disorders (PFDs)

• Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
  • A guide for urogynecologic patient care utilizing telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: review of existing evidence [2020]

• Urogynecology
  • Barriers to Urogynecologic Care for Racial and Ethnic Minority Women: A Qualitative Systematic Review [2023]

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• Saudi Medical Journal
  • Prevalence of pelvic floor disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean region: A meta-analysis [2023]

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Pelvic organ prolapse
  • Obstetric fistula, vesicovaginal fistula
  • Gynecologic surgery
  • Fecal incontinence