Society guideline links: Female infertility

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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: Primary ovarian insufficiency".)

International

●Clinical practice guidelines for the care of girls and women with Turner syndrome (2024)

●International evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome (2023)

●Recommendations from the international evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome (2023)

●International Society for Fertility Preservation (ISFP): Recommendations for fertility preservation in patients with lymphoma, leukemia, and breast cancer (2012)

Canada

●Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS): Clinical practice guideline for fertility preservation in patients undergoing gonadotoxic treatments (2024)

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline on hysteroscopic surgery in fertility therapy (2024)

●Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON), Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology/Association canadienne des infirmières en oncologie (CANO/ACIO), and Oncology Nursing Society (ONS): A joint position statement on fertility preservation in individuals with cancer (2023)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on minimally invasive surgery in fertility therapy (2023)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: CFAS – Five tests and treatments to question (updated 2022)

●CFAS: Clinical practice guideline for managing and preventing blood-borne viral infection transmission in assisted reproduction (2020)

●CFAS: Clinical practice guideline on recurrent implantation failure in IVF (2020)

●CFAS: Position statement on ovarian tissue cryopreservation (2020)

●SOGC: Committee opinion on thyroid disease and infertility (2020)

●CFAS: A clinical practice guideline for the management of thin endometrium in assisted reproduction (2019)

●CFAS: An evidence-based guideline for the management of unexplained infertility (2019)

●CFAS: Recommendations on obesity and reproduction (2018)

●CFAS and SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on egg freezing for age-related fertility decline (2018)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on ovulation induction in polycystic ovary syndrome (2018)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on advanced reproductive age and fertility (2017)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (2017)

●SOGC: Guidelines on delayed child-bearing (2017)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline for the management of uterine fibroids in women with otherwise unexplained infertility (2015)

United States

●American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM): Ethics committee opinions

●ASRM: Practice committee documents

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on gynecologic issues in children and adolescent cancer patients and survivors (2018, reaffirmed 2025)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on perinatal risks associated with assisted reproductive technology (2016, reaffirmed 2024)

●ACOG and ASRM: Committee opinion on prepregnancy counseling (2019, reaffirmed 2024)

●ASRM and Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART): Gamete and embryo donation guidance (2024)

●ACOG: Technology assessment on sonohysterography (2016, reaffirmed 2023)

●Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON), Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology/Association canadienne des infirmières en oncologie (CANO/ACIO), and Oncology Nursing Society (ONS): A joint position statement on fertility preservation in individuals with cancer (2023)

●ACOG and ASRM: Committee opinion on female age-related fertility decline (2014, reaffirmed 2022)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): Practice parameter for the performance of hysterosalpingography (2001, revised 2022)

●ASRM and SART: Recommendations for practices using gestational carriers – A committee opinion (2022)

●ASRM and Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (SREI): Optimizing natural fertility – A committee opinion (2022)

●ASRM and Society of Reproductive Biologists and Technologists (SRBT): A review of best practices of rapid-cooling vitrification for oocytes and embryos – A committee opinion (2021)

●ASRM, SRBT, and SART: In vitro maturation – A committee opinion (2021)

●ASRM and SREI: Diagnosis and treatment of luteal phase deficiency – A committee opinion (2021)

●Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN): Position statement on infertility treatment and fertility preservation (2021)

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Fertility preservation for pediatric and adolescent patients with cancer – Medical and ethical considerations (2020)

●American College of Radiology (ACR)-ACOG-American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)-Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU): Practice parameter for the performance of sonohysterography and hysterosalpingo-contrast-sonography (HyCoSy) (revised 2020)

●American College of Rheumatology (ACR): Guideline for the management of reproductive health in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (2020)

●ASRM and SART: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for non-male factor indications – A committee opinion (2020)

●ASRM, SRBT, and SART: Cryostorage of reproductive tissues in the in vitro fertilization laboratory – A committee opinion (2020)

●ASRM and SREI: Use of exogenous gonadotropins for ovulation induction in anovulatory women – A committee opinion (2020)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on family building through gestational surrogacy (2016, reaffirmed 2019)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on female infertility (revised 2019)

●AIUM: Practice parameter for the performance of a focused ultrasound examination in reproductive endocrinology and female infertility (2019)

●Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) and ASRM: Evidence-based review of reproductive and hormonal considerations in women at increased risk for hereditary gynecologic cancers (2019)

●American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Clinical practice guideline on fertility preservation in patients with cancer, update (2018)

●Fertility preservation in women with Turner syndrome – A comprehensive review and practical guidelines (2016)

Europe

●European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE): Guidelines, consensus documents and recommendations

●European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO)/ESHRE/European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE): Guidelines for the fertility-sparing treatment of patients with endometrial carcinoma (2023)

●European Thyroid Association (ETA): Guideline on thyroid disorders prior to and during assisted reproduction (2021)

●European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Clinical practice guidelines on fertility preservation and post-treatment pregnancies in post-pubertal cancer patients (2020)

●EUropean REcommendations for female FERtility preservation (EU-REFER) – A joint collaboration between oncologists and fertility specialists (2019)

●European League Against Rheumatism (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)

United Kingdom

●British Fertility Society (BFS): Policy and practice guidance for assessment and prevention of venous thromboembolism associated with medically assisted reproduction (MAR) (2024)

●BFS: Policy and practice recommendations for evidence based management of patients with endometriosis undergoing assisted conception (2024)

●Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists (ARCS) and BFS: Human oocyte cryopreservation – Revised evidence for practice (2023)

●ARCS and BFS: The use of ICSI in ART – Evidence for practice (2023)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance for removal, preservation and reimplantation of ovarian tissue for restoring fertility after gonadotoxic treatment (2023)

●BFS: Policy and practice guideline for the management of recurrent implantation failure (2022)

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Scientific impact paper on subclinical hypothyroidism and antithyroid autoantibodies in women with subfertility or recurrent pregnancy loss (2022)

●BFS: UK guidelines for the medical and laboratory procurement and use of sperm, oocyte and embryo donors, 2019 (published 2021)

●BFS: Recommendations for good practice for sedation in assisted conception (2020)

●RCOG: Scientific impact paper on elective egg freezing for non-medical reasons (2020)

●BFS: Policy and practice guideline on fertility preservation for medical reasons in girls and women (2018)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on fertility problems − Assessment and treatment (2013, updated 2017)

●BFS: Adjuvants in IVF − Evidence for good clinical practice (2015)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on hysteroscopic metroplasty of a uterine septum for primary infertility (2015)

●NICE: Quality standard on fertility problems (2014)

●BFS: Guidelines for practice on ovulation induction in WHO Type 1 anovulation (2013)

Australia–New Zealand

●European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) and Australian Centre for Research Excellence in Women's Health in Reproductive Life (CRE-WHIRL): Australian evidence-based guideline for unexplained infertility (2023)

●Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA): Guidelines for fertility preservation for people with cancer (2022)

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Best practice statement on surrogacy in Australia and New Zealand (2021)

●Australasian CREI Consensus Expert Panel on Trial Evidence (ACCEPT): Consensus statement on elective oocyte cryopreservation (2019)

●RANZCOG: Statement on fibroids in infertility (2018)

●RANZCOG: Statement on progesterone support of the luteal phase and in the first trimester (2018)

●ACCEPT: A consensus statement on endometriosis and infertility (2012)

Japan

●[In English] Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG): Guideline for gynecological practice in Japan, 2023 edition (published 2024)

●[In Japanese] JSOG and JAOG: Obstetrics and gynecology clinical practice guidelines – Gynecology outpatient edition (2023)

●[In English] Japan Society of Clinical Oncology (JSCO): Clinical practice guidelines for fertility preservation in childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer patients – Part 1, 2017 (published 2022)

●[In English] JSCO: Clinical practice guidelines for fertility preservation in childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer patients – Part 2, 2017 (published 2022)

●[In English] Japan Society of Reproductive Medicine (JSRM): Guidelines for reproductive medicine in Japan (2022)

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Cancer and Reproductive Medicine (JSFP): Clinical practice guidelines for pregnancy, childbirth and reproductive medicine for the breast cancer patient (2021)

●[In Japanese] JSRM: Reproductive medicine guidelines (2021)

●[In Japanese] JSRM: Recommendations for reproductive medicine using donor gametes, revised (2020)

●[In English] JSRM: Guideline for cryopreservation of unfertilized eggs and ovarian tissues (2019)

●[In Japanese] JSRM: Guidelines for freezing and preserving unfertilized eggs and ovarian tissues (2018)

●[In Japanese] JSCO: Clinical practice guidelines for fertility preservation in childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer patients (2017)

●[In English] JSOG: Management of secondary infertility following cesarean section (2015)