A systematic review of assisted and third-party reproduction guidelines regarding management and care of donors

Table 4 Information provision recommended by different guidelines for gamete/embryo donors

*	Name	Procedure	Side effects	Screening results	Responsibilities and rights
1	Guidelines for counselling in infertility [43]	+	+	-	-
2	Psychological guidelines for embryo donation [44]	+	+	-	-
3	Assisted Human Reproduction Counselling Practice Guidelines [45]	+	+	-	+
4	Guidelines for the Donation of Gametes and Embryos, Surrogacy and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis [46]	+	+	-	+
5	Guidelines for Third Party Reproduction [47]	+	+	+	+
6	Interests, obligations, and rights in gamete and embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion [52]	-	+	+	-
7	UK guidelines for the medical and laboratory procurement and use of sperm, oocyte and embryo donors [48]	-	-	+	-
8	Guidance regarding gamete and embryo donation [30]	+	+	+	+
9	Code of practice (9th edition) [34]	+	+	+	+
10	Code of practice for assisted reproductive technology units [50]	+	+	+	+
11	Good practice recommendations for information provision for those involved in reproductive donation [51]	+	+	+	+
12	Ethical guidelines on the use of assisted reproductive technology [49]	-	+	-	+

(‘+’ means that there are recommendations in the guideline about this topic, ‘- ‘means that this topic has not been mentioned in the guideline)

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