Clinical guidelines of UTIs in children: quality appraisal with AGREE II and recommendations analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the current Chinese and English guidelines of urinary tract infection (UTI) in children and provide a summary of the recommendations of the guidelines.

Methods

An electronic search was conducted on databases, including Pubmed, SinoMed, Wangfang Data, CHKD,VIP, NICE, WHO, GIN and Medliveto retrieve data of the clinical practice guidelines on UTI from the establishment of the database to June 2020. Four assessors assessed the quality of guidelines using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation II (AGREE II) and evaluated the specific recommendations in guidelines.

Results

(1) Nine guidelines including two from the USA (AAP and A guideline for the inpatient care of children with pyelonephritis) and the remaining from EAU/ESPU, SINEPE, KH

SUBMITTER: Zhu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9047976 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature