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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1646-5830</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Acta Obstétrica e Ginecológica Portuguesa]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Acta Obstet Ginecol Port]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1646-5830</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Euromédice, Edições Médicas Lda.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1646-58302025000400241</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.69729/aogp.v19i4a02</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Induction of Labour in 2024/2025 - What&#8217;s new?]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Indução de Trabalho de Parto em 2024/2025 - O que há de novo?]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Carvalho-Afonso]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Maria de]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Clode]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Nuno]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Clínica Universitária de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Portugal</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital CUF Torres Vedras  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Portugal</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>19</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
<fpage>241</fpage>
<lpage>244</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1646-58302025000400241&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1646-58302025000400241&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1646-58302025000400241&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This paper highlights the most relevant studies on labour induction published over the past year, which may have an impact on daily clinical pratice.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo Os autores apresentam os estudos mais relevantes publicados no último ano sobre a indução de trabalho de parto e, que pela sua relevância, poderão ter maior impacto na prática clínica.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Labor induction]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Misoprostol]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Foley balloon]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Indução do parto]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Misoprostol]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Balão de Foley]]></kwd>
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