ObjectivesTo investigate and analyze the status of pediatric internal medicine clinical practice guidelines published in journals of mainland China from 2010 to 2017.MethodsCBM, CNKI, VIP and WanFang Data databases were electronically searched to collect pediatric internal medicine clinical practice guidelines published in Chinese journals of mainland China from January 2010 to December 2017. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data. The author's information was organized and co-word matrixes were produced using BICOMS 2 software. The visualization diagram was plotted using Ucinet 6.0 software to analysze the societal relationship of authors.ResultsA total of 135 pediatric clinical guidelines were included, involving 109 western medical guidelines, 24 Chinese traditional medicine guidelines and 2 guidelines on integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine. The main types of clinical practice guidelines for children were diagnosis and treatment (45.19%), followed by technical guidelines (15.56%). Most of the guidelines were on respiratory diseases (23.70%). 54.81% of the guidelines for children were formulated by seminars and consensus, and 28.89% of the guidelines mentioned the application of evidence-based methods to develop guidelines. The institutes (40.00%) were participated in the development of the guidelines, in which 11 research groups were participated in the development of the guidelines.ConclusionsThe quantity of pediatric internal medicine clinical practice guidelines in mainland China has increased from 2010 to 2017. The scope of the guidelines is limited, and cooperation is required to further improve the quality of children’s guidelines.
