Pediatric clinical practice guidelines in China: still a long way to go

摘要

Clinical practice guidelines provide optimal patient care recommendations, which are important tools for promoting the equality of health care services and saving healthcare resources in China [ 1 ]. The evidence-based clinical guidelines are specifi c to clinical problems and are developed through systematic reviewing to help clinicians and patients make appropriate decisions. Chen et al. revealed several limitations in adoption and adaptation of Chinese Guidelines including (1) rarely using systematic review to support recommendations, (2) lacking information in conflict of interest, and (3) low adherence rate of clinicians to guidelines [ 1 ].