Abstract:

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a infection disease which causes relatively higher morbidity and mortality in children. In order to reduce childhood TB, a number of clinical practice guidelines for the management of tuberculosis in children with variable qualities have been published by different countries or organizations, only these wtih high qualities provide a better guidance. In order to promote the application of these clinical practice guidelines in children and improve the standardization, science and transparency of the formulation of the clinical practice guidelines in the further, this article analyzed the current status of the characteristics, quality and recommendations of published clinical practice guidelines, pointed out the existing limitations and propose improvement strategies.

Key words: Child, Tuberculosis, Practice guideline, Evaluation studies, Thinking