Noticing a lot of database index fragmentation yet no Health Analyzer alerts...? Best practice for database maintenance in 2013?

Could someone point me to a document for best practices for database maintenance with SharePoint 2013? I have read the 2010 document, but I'm hoping their is an updated one that I'm just missing.
My problem is that our DBA recently noticed that many of our SharePoint databases have high index fragmentation. I have the Health Analyzer rules enabled for index fragmentation and they run daily, but I've never received an alert despite the majority
of our databases having greater than 40% fragmentation and some are even above 95%.
Obviously it has our attention now and we want to get this addressed. My understanding (which I now fear is at best incomplete, more likely just plain wrong) was that a maintenance plan wasn't needed for index fragmentation in 2010/2013 like it was
in 2007.
Thanks,
Troy

It depends. Here are the rules for that job:
Sampled mode
Page count >24 and avg fragmentation in percent >5
Or
Page count >8 avg page space used in percent < fill_factor * 0.9 (Fill Factor in SharePoint 2013 varies from 80 to 100 depending on the index, it is important not to adjust index fill factors)
I have seen cases where the indexes are not automatically managed by the rule and require a manual defragmentation with a Full Scan, instead of Sampled. Once the Full Scan defrag completed, the timer job started handling the index fragmentation automatically.
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