Table 3 Summary of Included Clinical Practice Guidelines
Title | Year | Developing/publishing organisation and/or Lead authors | Funding | Country/countries of publication | Authors description of document (e.g. guideline/algorithm) | Type of guideline (formulated, adapted, updated, or revised) | No of recommendations specific to AN management of DCDA pregnancy | Development process (evidence based, consensus based or both) | System of rating evidence/ Quality instrument used during guideline development (GRADE, Oxford, not mentioned, or other) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Multifetal Gestations: Twin, Triplet, and Higher-Order Multifetal Pregnancies (Practice Bulletin No 231). (Reference no. 48) | 2021 | The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) | Not specified | USA | Practice bulletin | Updated | 28 | Both | The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) |
Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction. Committee Opinion No 719. (Reference no. 46) | 2017 | The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) | Not specified | USA | Committee opinion | Updated | 1 | Consensus based | Not stated |
Management of Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy: Greentop Guideline No. 51. (Reference no. 40). | 2016 | Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG) | Not specified | United Kingdom | Green-top Guideline | Updated | 6 | Evidence based | Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) |
ISUOG Practice Guideline: role of ultrasound in twin pregnancy. (Reference no. 9). | 2016 | The International Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) | Not specified | International | Practice Guideline | Formulated | 31 | Both | Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) |
Ultrasound in twin pregnancies: SOGC Clinical practice guideline No. 260. (Reference no 34). | 2011 | Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) | Not specified | Canada | Clinical practice guideline | Formulated | 19 | Both | Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care |
Prenatal Screening for and Diagnosis of Aneuploidy in Twin Pregnancies: Joint SOGC-CCMG Clinical Practice Guideline No, 262. (Reference no 36). | 2011 | Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) and the Prenatal Diagnosis Committee of the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG) | Not specified | Canada | Clinical practice guideline | Updated | 13 | Both | Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care |
Clinical practice guideline: Management of multiple pregnancy. (Reference no.43) | 2012 | Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Directorate of Strategy and Clinical Care, Health Service Executive | Not specified | Ireland | Clinical Practice Guideline | Formulated | 11 | Evidence based | Not specified |
Twin nd Triplet Pregnancy: NG137. (Reference no.42). | 2019 | National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) | Not specified | United Kingdom | Guideline | Updated | 60 | Both | Not specified |
Twin pregnancy. (Reference no.29). | 2018 | Department for Health and Ageing, Government of South Australia. | Not specified | South Australia | Perinatal Practice Guideline | Updated | 31 | Both | Not specified |
Cell free (cf.)DNA screening for Down syndrome in multiple pregnancies. (Reference no. 47) | 2021 | International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis (ISPD) | Not specified | International | Position statement | Formulated | 4 | Evidence based | Not specified |
SMFM Special Statement: State of the science on multifetal gestations: unique considerations and importance. (Reference no. 44). | 2020 | The Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | Not specified | International | Special statement | Formulated | 1 | Evidence based | Not specified |
FIGO Committee Report. Good Clinical Practice advice: Management of Twin Pregnancy. (Reference no. 30) | 2019 | International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) | Not specified | International | Committee Report/Good clinical practice advice | Not specified | 33 | Both | Not specified |
Role of ultrasonography in the management of twin gestation. (Reference no. 35). | 2018 | International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). | Not specified | International | Review article | Not specified | 17 | Evidence based | Not specified |
American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria: Multiple Gestations. (Reference no. 45) | 2017 | American College of Radiology (ACR) | Not specified | USA | Evidence-based Guidelines | Updated from 2012 version. | 29 | Both | RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method and Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation or GRADE |
RANZCOG Best Practice Statement: Management of monochorionic twin pregnancy. (Reference no. 39.) | 2021 | The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) | RANZCOG | Australia/New Zealand | Best practice statement | Updated | 1 | Both | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendations for Developers of Guidelines |
AWMF 015–087 S2e Überwachung und Betreuung von Zwillingsschwangerschaften (Monitoring and Care of Twin Pregnancies). (Reference no. 33). | 2020 | Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften (AWMF) (German Society for Gynecology & Obstetrics) | German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG), the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and the German Foundation for Women’s Health. | Germany | Guideline | Formulated | 31 | Evidence-based | Not stated |
Tvillinger - håndtering af graviditet og fødsel (twins- handling pregnancy and childbirth). (Reference no. 31) | 2010 | (Sandbjerg) Dansk Selskab for Obstetrik og Gynækologi | German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine eV and the German Foundation for Women’s Health. | Denmark | Guideline | Updated | 13 | Evidence-based | Not stated |
Tvillinger – Håndtering af fødslen (Twins- handling the birth). (Reference no. 32) | 2020 | Dansk Selskab for Obstetrik og Gynækologi | Not specified | Denmark | Guideline | Formulated | 8 | Evidence based | Not stated |
Maternity- Management of monochorionic twin pregnancy. (Reference no. 37). | 2020 | New South Wales Government | Not specified | New South Wales Australia | Guideline | Formulated | 1 | Evidence based | Not stated |
Ultrasound for twin and multiple pregnancies. (Reference no. 49) | 2017 | Alberta radiologists. Toward optimized practice (TOP) | Not specified | Alberta, Canada | Clinical Practice Guideline | Not stated | 25 | Both | Not stated |
SMFM Special Statement: Updated checklist for management of monochorionic twin pregnancy. (Reference no. 38). | 2020 | Society for fetal maternal medicine (SMFM) | Not specified | International | Checklist | Prenatal care clinic | 1 | Consensus based | Not stated |
Gestione della gravidanza multipla (Management of multiple pregnancy). (Reference no. 41). | 2016 | Confalonieri Ragonese Foundation, Societa’Italiana (SIGO), Associazione Ostetrici Ginecologi Ospedalieri Italiani (AOGOI) and Associazione Ginecologi Universitari Italiani (AGUI). | Not specified | Italy | Guideline | Formulated | 45 | Both | Not stated |
Twin pregnancies: guidelines for clinical practice from the French College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (CNGOF). (Reference no. 28) | 2009 | La gynécologie et l’obstétrique en France - CNGOF-French national college of obstetricians and gynecologists. | Not specified | France | Guideline | Not explicitly stated but obstetricians and gynaecologists | 38 | Both | Not stated |
Daugiavaisis NÄ—Å¡tumas (Multiple Pregnancy). (Reference no. 50). | 2014 | Lithuanian Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Lithuanian Midwives Association | Not specified | Lithuania | Guideline | Evidence based | 36 | Evidence based | Not stated |