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

Michael Chua; Jessica Ming; Shang-Jen Chang; Joana Dos Santos; Niraj Mistry; Jan Michael Silangcruz; Mark Bayley; Martin A Koyle

doi:10.5489/cuaj.4796

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

Can Urol Assoc J. 2018 Apr;12(4):112-118. doi: 10.5489/cuaj.4796. Epub 2017 Dec 22.

Authors

Michael Chua^{1

2}, Jessica Ming¹, Shang-Jen Chang³, Joana Dos Santos¹, Niraj Mistry⁴, Jan Michael Silangcruz², Mark Bayley⁵, Martin A Koyle^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Urology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² St. Luke's Medical Centre, Quezon City, Philippines.
³ Tzu Chi Buddhist General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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 or government organization providing recommendations for the management of pediatric UTI were considered. Eligible clinical practice guidelines were independently appraised by six reviewers using the AGREE II tool. Clinical practice guidelines were assessed for standardized domains and summarized for overall quality. Inter-rater reliability was assessed using inter-class coefficient (ICC).

Results: Thirteen clinical practice guidelines were critically reviewed. The Spanish clinical practice guidelines, American Academy of Pediatrics, and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence clinical practice guidelines consistently scored high on all AGREE domains (total averaged domain scores 90, 88, and 88, respectively). Among the six reviewers, there was a high degree of inter-rater reliability (average measure ICC 0.938; p<0.0001). There is reasonable consensus among the top three clinical practice guidelines in their major recommendations.

Conclusions: The clinical practice guidelines from Spain, American Academy of Pediatrics, and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, with their major recommendations being similar, have scored highly on the AGREE II indicators of quality for the clinical practice guidelines development process.