Society guideline links: Stillbirth

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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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International

●Society of Family Planning (SFP): Clinical guidelines on the interruption of nonviable pregnancies of 24–28 weeks' gestation using medical methods (2013)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline on stillbirth investigation (2020)

●Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG) and SOGC: Practice guideline – Joint recommendations for the use of chromosomal microarray analysis for prenatal diagnosis and assessment of fetal loss in Canada (2018)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline for the management of pregnancy subsequent to stillbirth (2018)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on fetal and perinatal autopsy in prenatally diagnosed fetal abnormalities with normal chromosome analysis (2018)

United States

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Obstetric care consensus for the management of stillbirth (2020, reaffirmed 2021)

●National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): The Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network postmortem examination protocol (2012)

Europe

●European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR): Recommendations on fetal and neonatal post-mortem imaging referral template (2024)