Clinical practice guideline recommendations for pediatric injury care: protocol for a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Evidence suggests the presence of deficiencies in the quality of care provided to up to half of all paediatric trauma patients in Canada, the USA and Australia. Lack of adherence to evidence-based recommendations may be driven by lack of knowledge of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), heterogeneity in recommendations or concerns about their quality. We aim to systematically review CPG recommendations for paediatric injury care and appraise their quality.

Methods and analysis

We will identify CPG recommendations through a comprehensive search strategy including Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Excerpta Medica dataBASE, Cochrane library, Web of Science, ClinicalTrials and websites of organisations publishing recommendations on paediatric

SUBMITTER: Moore L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9047816 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature