[Acute bronchiolitis clinical practice guideline: recommendations for clinical practice]

Abstract

There are scientific controversies about the management of acute bronchiolitis that generate a great variability in the approach to this entity. A clinical practice guideline (CPG) is a set of systematically developed recommendations to assist practitioners and patients to make decisions based on evidence. A working group (WG) of experts has been selected and they have developed the clinical questions. A systematic search for evidence on the acute bronchiolitis has been done and the evidence has been assessed. The information obtained has been summarized in evidence tables and recommendations have been done from them. The WG has produced a total of 46 clinical questions grouped into sections (diagnosis, complementary tests, treatment, monitoring, prevention and evolution), resulting in 133 recommendations. The CPG on acute bronchiolitis provides an opportunity to unify clinical practice based on scientific evidence, which could rationalize the use of health resources, improving health care quality and equity of access to services.