Simon Craig, Madeline Collings, Charmaine Gray, Javier Benito, Roberto Velasco, Mark D Lyttle, Damian Roland, Suzanne Schuh, Bashar Shihabuddin, Maria Kwok, Prashant Mahajan, Mike Johnson, Joseph Zorc, Kajal Khanna, Ricardo Fernandes, Adriana Yock-Corrales, Indumathy Santhanam, Baljit Cheema, Gene Yong-Kwang Ong, Thiagarajan Jaiganesh, Colin Powell, Gillian Nixon, Stuart Dalziel, Franz E Babl, Andis Graudins
RATIONALE: There is significant practice variation in acute paediatric asthma, particularly severe exacerbations. It is unknown whether this is due to differences in clinical guidelines. OBJECTIVES: To describe and compare the content and quality of clinical guidelines for the management of acute exacerbations of asthma in children between geographic regions. METHODS: Observational study of guidelines for the management of acute paediatric asthma from institutions across a global collaboration of six regional paediatric emergency research networks...
February 7, 2024: Archives of Disease in Childhood