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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International
●WHO: Recommendations on non-clinical interventions to reduce unnecessary caesarean sections (2018)
Canada
●SOGC: Committee opinion on caesarean delivery on maternal request (2018)
United States
●ACOG: Practice bulletin on vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (2019)
●American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP): Clinical practice guideline – Planning for labor and vaginal birth after cesarean (2014, reaffirmed 2019)
●ACOG and Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Obstetric care consensus on safe prevention of the primary cesarean delivery (2014, reaffirmed 2016)
Europe
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on caesarean birth (2021)
●NICE: Quality standard on caesarean birth (2013, updated 2021)
●RCOG: Classification of urgency of caesarean section – A continuum of risk (2010)
Australia-New Zealand
●RANZCOG: Categorisation of urgency for caesarean section (2019)
●RANZCOG: Delivery of the fetus at caesarean section (2019)
●RANZCOG: Timing of elective caesarean section at term (2018)
●RANZCOG: Caesarean delivery on maternal request (CDMR) (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)