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Pregnancy tests

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Beta Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Test for Detection of Early Pregnancy: Clinical Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2013]

Europe

• Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
  • Recommendations for validation testing of home pregnancy tests (HPTs) in Europe [2021]

Germany

• Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
  • Strips of Hope: Accuracy of Home Pregnancy Tests and New Developments [2014]

International

• BMJ Open
  • Self-testing for pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Family Health International
  • Quality and Performance Guidance on Selection of Pregnancy Tests for Procurement [2017]

Nepal

• Studies in Family Planning
  • How Do Women Learn They Are Pregnant? The Introduction of Clinics and Pregnancy Awareness in Nepal [2022]

Uganda

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • Factors associated with knowledge and use of home pregnancy test kits in Uganda [2023]

United Kingdom

• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  • 6th International Standard for Chorionic Gonadotrophin, human [2020]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Pregnancy testing - Preoperative Tests (Update) [2016]

• Right Decisions
  • Pregnancy testing for girls aged 12 yrs & over

United States

• American Society of Anesthesiologists
  • Statement on Pregnancy Testing Prior to Anesthesia and Surgery [2016]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • How To Be Reasonably Certain that a Patient Is Not Pregnant [2024]

• Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
  • Current Practices When Reporting Quantitative Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Test Results [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Evidence-based pregnancy testing in clinical trials: Recommendations from a multi-stakeholder development process [2018]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO/BS/2020.2395 Proposed 6th WHO International Standard for human chorionic gonadotrophin [2020]
  • WHO international collaborative study of the proposed 5th [fifth] international standard for chorionic gonadotrophin [2009]

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