A critical review of recent clinical practice guidelines for pediatric urinary tract infection.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Concerns regarding the quality, credibility, and applicability of recently published pediatric urinary tract infection (UTI) clinical practice guidelines have been raised due to the inconsistencies of recommendations between them. We aimed to determine the quality of the recent clinical practice guidelines on pediatric UTI by using the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE II) instrument, and summarize the standard of care in diagnosis and management of pediatric UTI from the top three clinical practice guidelines. METHODS:A systematic literature search was performed on medical literature electronic databases and international guideline repository websites. English language-based clinical practice guidelines from 2007-2016 endorsed by any international society

SUBMITTER: Chua M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5905538 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature