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Society guideline links: Constipation

Society guideline links: Constipation

Introduction — 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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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Fecal incontinence".)

International

Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC): Recommendations on the management of constipation in patients with advanced cancer (2020)

Constipation in older people – A consensus statement (2016)

World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO): Practice guideline on constipation (2010)

Canada

Choosing Wisely Canada: Avoid performing a colonoscopy for constipation in those under the age of 50 years without family history of colon cancer or alarm features (2020)

Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't use stool softeners alone to prevent opioid induced constipation (2020)

European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN): Evidence-based recommendations on evaluation and treatment of functional constipation in infants and children (2014)

Canadian Consensus Development Group for Constipation in Patients with Advanced Progressive Illness: Consensus recommendations for the management of constipation in patients with advanced, progressive illness (2010)

United States

American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Guideline on the medical management of opioid-induced constipation (2019)

American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS): Best-practice statement on evaluation of obstructed defecation (2018)

American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS): Clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and management of constipation (2016)

American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): The role of endoscopy in the management of constipation (2014)

European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN): Evidence-based recommendations on evaluation and treatment of functional constipation in infants and children (2014)

AGA: Medical position statement on constipation (2013)

Europe

European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis, assessment and management of constipation in advanced cancer (2018)

Pathophysiology and management of opioid-induced constipation – European expert consensus statement (2019)

Opioid-induced constipation and bowel dysfunction – A clinical guideline (2017)

Sacral nerve stimulation for faecal incontinence and constipation – A European consensus statement (2015)

European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN): Evidence-based recommendations on evaluation and treatment of functional constipation in infants and children (2014)

United Kingdom

British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG): A guide to refractory constipation – Diagnosis and evidence-based management (2020, updated 2022)

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on constipation in children and young people – Diagnosis and management (2010, updated 2017)

Choosing Wisely UK: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health – Polyethylene glycol should be used in preference to Lactulose in the treatment of chronic constipation in children (2016)

NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on assessing motility of the gastrointestinal tract using a wireless capsule (2014)

NICE: Quality standard on constipation in children and young people (2014)

NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on stapled transanal rectal resection for obstructed defaecation syndrome (2010)

India

Indian Motility and Functional Diseases Association (IMFDA) and the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG): Indian consensus on chronic constipation in adults - A joint position statement (2019)

Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ISPGHAN) and Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP): Consensus practice guidelines for the management of childhood functional constipation (2018)

Australia-New Zealand

Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not routinely order abdominal X-rays for the diagnosis of nonspecific abdominal pain in children (2017)

Japan

[In Japanese] Japanese Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (JSPGHAN): Pediatric chronic functional constipation clinical practice guidelines (2013)

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