The primary audience for these recommendations includes health professionals who are responsible for developing national and local health-care guidelines and protocols and health workers involved in the provision of care to women and their newborns during pregnancy, labour and childbirth; this includes m...
This guideline covers the circumstances for inducing labour, methods of induction, assessment,
monitoring, pain relief and managing complications. It aims to improve advice and care for pregnant
women who are thinking about or having induction of labour.
In this guideline we use the terms 'woman' and 'wo...
Optimizing outcomes for women in labour at the global level requires evidence-based guidance of health workers to improve care through appropriate patient selection and use of effective interventions. In this regard, WHO published recommendations for induction of labour in 2011. The goal of the present g...
