How Swedish Guidelines on Urinary Tract Infections in Children Compare to Canadian, American and European Guidelines

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Journal Acta Paediatr

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2020 Dec 19

PMID 33341101

Citations 4

Authors

Per Brandstrom

Magnus Linden

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Abstract

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are common in children and the guidelines focus on preventing kidney damage. We compared the 2013 national Swedish guidelines on UTIs in children with the guidelines from America, Canada, UK, Spain, Italy and European urologists. This showed that urinalysis and urine cultures are endorsed by all the guidelines, but sampling techniques and bacteria levels differ. They all recommend initial oral treatment and renal ultrasound to detect major anomalies in infants. The Swedish guidelines are more liberal on antibiotic prophylaxis. CONCLUSION: Differences in diagnostic criteria, workup and accepted methods for urine sampling were noted and are discussed.

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