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WHO recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience (2018)

The 2018 WHO guideline on care during labour and birth. It sets out 56 recommendations for the whole of labour, from respectful care and a companion of the woman's choice to care in each stage of labour and straight after birth. WHO says the recommendations should be carried out together as a package, in every kind of setting.

Also called WHO intrapartum care guideline 2018

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Overview

Technical summary

Edition 2018. ISBN 978-92-4-155021-5. Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. The who.int page date is 7 February 2018, which the atlas uses for WHO decisions; the WHO IRIS record 10665/260178 lists an issue date of 2018-02-14. Of the 56 recommendations, 26 were newly developed and 30 were integrated from existing WHO guidelines. They are grouped by context: care throughout labour and birth, the first, second and third stages of labour, immediate care of the newborn and immediate care of the woman after birth. Each falls in one of four categories (Recommended, Not recommended, Recommended only in specific contexts, Recommended only in the context of rigorous research). This atlas records Recommendation 3, a companion of choice. A BJOG paper by WHO authors describes the WHO model of intrapartum care (PMID 29637727, CC BY). Whether a later edition replaces this guideline was not checked.

About this guideline

Edition
2018
Published
2018-02-07
Status
Not checked for a newer edition
Scope
Intrapartum care: care throughout labour and birth, the first, second and third stages of labour, immediate care of the newborn and immediate care of the woman after birth.

Source

Document
WHO recommendations: intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience
Publisher
World Health Organization
Edition note
2018. Electronic ISBN 978-92-4-155021-5. The who.int publication page shows 7 February 2018, which the atlas uses for WHO sources and decisions; the WHO IRIS record 10665/260178 lists an issue date of 2018-02-14. Both are kept. The English PDF was read from IRIS (bitstream ba043cf7-cba4-484d-bf7e-ec79c4102d54); the first IRIS link on the page returned a 4625-byte thumbnail image, logged as mg-who-9789241550215-thumb.jpg.

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Record details

Record id
maternal:guideline-who-2018-intrapartum-care
Content hash
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