Evaluation of national guidelines for bronchiolitis: AGREEments and controversies.

Aim: Bronchiolitis is a common respiratory illness and is a leading cause of hospitalisation in infancy. We aimed to appraise three recent national bronchiolitis guidelines produced by the Australasian Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the UK and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Methods: A group of final-year medical students and one senior clinician used the AGREE II tool to appraise each guideline in two stages.