OB/GYN

ACOG Practice Bulletins and Committee Opinions are the US standard. Hyperlinked below where ACOG hosts open-access versions; many require ACOG membership.

Portals

• ACOG Clinical Guidance — Practice Bulletins, Committee Opinions, Practice Advisories.
• ACOG Practice Bulletins by Topic — A–Z bulletin index.
• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Guidelines — consult-level high-risk OB guidance.

Routine prenatal care

• ACOG/AAP Guidelines for Perinatal Care, 8th Ed (overview) — the joint OB/peds perinatal reference textbook.
• USPSTF Folic Acid for Neural Tube Defect Prevention — Grade A; 0.4-0.8 mg daily preconception.
• CDC Yellow Book — Pregnancy & Travel — travel medicine during pregnancy.
• Vaccines During Pregnancy (CDC) — Tdap, influenza, COVID-19, RSV (mat) recommendations.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

• ACOG Hypertension in Pregnancy (Practice Bulletin 222) — gestational HTN, preeclampsia, eclampsia.
• ACOG Chronic Hypertension in Pregnancy (Practice Bulletin 203) — preconception and antepartum management.
• CHAP Trial (NEJM 2022) — Tita et al; treating mild chronic HTN below 140/90 reduces adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Gestational diabetes

• ACOG Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (Practice Bulletin 230) — diagnosis and management.
• ADA Standards — Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy — Section 15 of the annual Standards.

GBS prophylaxis

• ACOG Prevention of GBS Early-Onset Disease in Newborns (Committee Opinion 797) — intrapartum prophylaxis; 36 0/7 – 37 6/7 wk universal screening.

Bleeding & emergencies

• ACOG Postpartum Hemorrhage (Practice Bulletin 183) — stepwise medical and surgical management.
• California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative — Toolkits — PPH, HDP, sepsis, VTE, racial disparities toolkits used widely as state PPH bundles.
• AIM (Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health) Patient Safety Bundles — hospital-level OB safety bundles endorsed by ACOG/SMFM.

Postpartum

• ACOG Optimizing Postpartum Care (Committee Opinion 736) — “fourth trimester” framework; transition from one 6-wk visit to multi-visit care.
• Postpartum Depression Screening — EPDS — Edinburgh scale; used at the 1- and 6-month visits.
• ABM Clinical Protocols (Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine) — peer-reviewed lactation clinical protocols.

Gynecology / menopause

• USPSTF Hormone Therapy 2022 — D-grade for chronic disease prevention (not vasomotor sx).
• The Menopause Society Position Statement 2022 — vasomotor symptom treatment; replaces NAMS 2017.
• ACOG Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (Practice Bulletin 128, reaffirmed) — PALM-COEIN diagnostic framework.

Contraception & cervical screening

See dedicated page: Contraception & Cervical Screening →

Lactation safety

• LactMed — NLM drug-in-lactation database.