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
●World Health Organization (WHO): Recommendations on interventions to improve preterm birth outcomes (2015)
Canada
●SOGC: Committee opinion on universal cervical length screening (2019)
United States
●Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Preterm birth toolkit
●Choosing Wisely: Don't perform routine cervical length screening for preterm birth risk assessment in asymptomatic women before 16 weeks of gestation or beyond 24 weeks of gestation (2016, updated 2021)
●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on antenatal corticosteroid therapy for fetal maturation (2017, reaffirmed 2020)
●ACOG: Committee opinion on magnesium sulfate before anticipated preterm birth for neuroprotection (2010, reaffirmed 2020)
●ACOG: Committee opinion on medically indicated late-preterm and early-term deliveries (2019)
●Choosing Wisely: Don't perform serial cervical length measurement following cerclage placement (2019)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin for management of preterm labor (2016)
●ACOG: Practice bulletin for prediction and prevention of preterm birth (2012)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline for preterm labour and birth (2015, updated 2019)
●NICE: Quality standard on preterm labour and birth (2016, updated 2019)
Australia-New Zealand
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)
●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: Precautions when giving birth to a baby – Why planned preterm birth is not desirable (2016)