Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Pocket book of hospital care for children – Guidelines for the management of common childhood illnesses, second edition (2013)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe antibiotics in adults with bronchitis/asthma and children with bronchiolitis (2020)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on bronchiolitis – Recommendations for diagnosis, monitoring and management of children one to 24 months of age (2014, updated 2018)

United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Updated guidance for palivizumab prophylaxis among infants and young children at increased risk of hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus infection (2014, reaffirmed 2019)

●Choosing Wisely: Antibiotics should not be used for viral respiratory illnesses (sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis and bronchiolitis) (2013, updated 2018)

●National Perinatal Association (NPA): 2018 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) prevention clinical practice guideline – An evidence-based interdisciplinary collaboration (published 2017)

●AAP: Clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of bronchiolitis (2014)

●Choosing Wisely: Don't order chest radiographs in children with uncomplicated asthma or bronchiolitis (2013)

●Choosing Wisely: Don't routinely use bronchodilators in children with bronchiolitis (2013)

●Choosing Wisely: Don't use systemic corticosteroids in children under 2 years of age with an uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infection (2013)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on bronchiolitis in children – Diagnosis and management (2015, updated 2021)

●Choosing Wisely UK: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health – Bronchodilators should not be used in the treatment of mild or moderate presentations of acute bronchiolitis in children without any underlying conditions (2016)

●NICE: Quality standard on bronchiolitis in children (2016)

Australia-New Zealand

●Australasian bronchiolitis guideline (2019)

●New South Wales (NSW) Health: Clinical practice guideline for infants and children – Acute management of bronchiolitis (2018)

●South Australia (SA) Child Health Clinical Network: Clinical guideline for management of bronchiolitis in children (2013, revised 2018)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not routinely undertake chest X-rays for the diagnosis of bronchiolitis in children or routinely prescribe salbutamol or systemic corticosteroids to treat bronchiolitis in children (2017)