Appraisal of clinical practice guidelines on community-acquired pneumonia in children with AGREE II instrument

BMC Pediatrics

Research Article

Xiaoling Wang¹  Libo Zhao¹  Zhenwei Xie²  Baoping Xu³  Jun Liu³  Yan Guo³  Adong Shen⁴  Lin Sun⁴ 

[1] Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100045, Beijing, China;Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100045, Beijing, China;School of Pharmaceutical Science, Peking University, 100191, Beijing, China;Department of Respiratory, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100045, Beijing, China;Key Laboratory of Pediatric Respiratory Infection Diseases, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100045, Beijing, China;

关键词: Clinical practice guidelines;    Community-acquired pneumonia;    Children;    Quality assessment;    AGREE II;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12887-016-0651-5

 received in 2015-08-08, accepted in 2016-07-19,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundCommunity-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide among children. The growing number of guidelines have been accompanied with a growing concern about variance and conflicts among guideline recommendations. There is a need to critically appraise clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in order to ensure safe and effective practices.MethodsA literature search was systematically conducted in English and Chinese major academic databases (from January 2000 to March 2015). CPGs related to CAP in children were evaluated by four independent assessors, according to AGREE II instruments. Standardized domain scores were calculated for each guideline. Inter-rater reliability was assessed by intraclass correlation coefficient. The software used for analysis was SPSS 17.0.ResultsA total of 10 guidelines met the inclusion criteria and were appraised. Scope and purpose (69.03 %) and clarity of presentation (83.33 %) achieved relative high scores, while the scores of the other four domains were low: stakeholder involvement (42.78 %), rigour of development (44.95 %), applicability (37.60 %), and editorial independence (23.74 %). 3 guidelines were strongly recommended as a result of the overall scores were greater than 60 %.ConclusionThe qualities of CPGs for CAP in children were generally acceptable with several flaws. Stakeholder involvement, rigour of development, applicability and editorial independence should be considered and well described in the future development of CPGs.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2016