Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Labor" and "Society guideline links: Shoulder dystocia and macrosomia".)
International
●WHO: Recommendations – Intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience (2018)
Canada
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't do routine episiotomy in spontaneous or instrumented vaginal births (2021)
●SOGC: Guidelines for vaginal birth after previous caesarean birth (2018)
United States
●American College of Obstetricians (ACOG): Committee opinion on approaches to limit intervention during labor and birth (2019, reaffirmed 2021)
●ACOG: Committee opinion on delivery of a newborn with meconium-stained amniotic fluid (2017, reaffirmed 2021)
●ACOG: Committee opinion on immersion in water during labor and delivery (2016, reaffirmed 2021)
●ACOG: Committee opinion on labor and delivery management of women with human immunodeficiency virus infection (2018, reaffirmed 2020)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin on operative vaginal birth (2020)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin on vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (2019)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin for prevention and management of obstetric lacerations at vaginal delivery (2018)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin for use of prophylactic antibiotics in labor and delivery (2018)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Guideline on intrapartum care (2023)
●NICE: Quality standard on intrapartum care – Existing medical conditions and obstetric complications (2020)
●NICE: Quality standard on intrapartum care (2015, updated 2017)
●RCOG: Green-top guideline for the management of third- and fourth-degree perineal tears, 3rd edition (2015)
●RCOG: Green-top guideline on birth after previous caesarean birth, 2nd edition (2015)
Australia–New Zealand
●RANZCOG: Statement on instrumental vaginal birth (2020)
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG): Obstetrics and gynecology clinical practice guidelines – Obstetrics edition (2023)
●[In English] JSOG and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG): Guidelines for obstetrical practice in Japan, 2020 edition (published 2023)
●[In Japanese] Nationwide survey on safe and satisfactory pregnancy and births desired by mothers – Revision of the guidelines for comfortable and safe birth and birth based on scientific evidence (2013)
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