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: Delivery" and "Society guideline links: Shoulder dystocia and macrosomia".)
International
●FIGO: Consensus guidelines on intrapartum fetal monitoring (2015)
●WHO: Recommendations for augmentation of labour (2014)
●FIGO: Guidelines for the management of the second stage of labor (2012)
Canada
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Avoid the use of routine episiotomy in spontaneous vaginal births (2019)
●SOGC: Management of spontaneous labour at term in healthy women (2016)
United States
●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on planned home birth (2017, reaffirmed 2020)
●ACOG: Committee opinion on approaches to limit intervention during labor and birth (2019)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin on the use of prophylactic antibiotics in labor and delivery (2018)
●ACOG: Committee opinion on immersion in water during labor and delivery (2016)
●ACNM: Position statement on hydrotherapy during labor and birth (2014)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on intrapartum care for healthy women and babies (2014, updated 2022)
●NICE: Guideline on fetal monitoring in labour (2022)
●NICE: Quality standard on intrapartum care – Existing medical conditions and obstetric complications (2020)
●NICE: Quality standard on intrapartum care (2015, updated 2017)
●Royal College of Midwives (RCM): Position statement on doulas (2017)
●RCM: Evidence based guidelines for midwifery-led care in labour – Positions for labour and birth (2012)
Australia-New Zealand
●RANZCOG: Home births (2017)
●RANZCOG: Provision of routine intrapartum care in the absence of pregnancy complications (2017)
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG): Obstetrics and gynecology clinical practice guidelines – Obstetrics (2020)
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