Society guideline links: Urinary tract infections in children

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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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Sepsis in neonates" and "Society guideline links: Vesicoureteral reflux".)

International

●International Children's Continence Society (ICCS): A position statement on diagnosis and management of bladder bowel dysfunction in children with urinary tract infections (2018)

●ICCS: Standardization report on urodynamic studies of the lower urinary tract in children (2015)

●ICCS: Report for management of functional constipation in children with lower urinary tract symptoms (2013)

Canada

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on prophylactic antibiotics for children with recurrent urinary tract infections (2015, updated 2024)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't use a bag for collection of urine cultures to diagnose urinary tract infections (2022)

●CPS: Position statement on urinary tract infection in infants and children – Diagnosis and management (2014, reaffirmed 2020)

United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book – Infection-prone body sites: Urinary tract infection (2024)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on urinary tract infection – Child (2023)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute pyelonephritis (2022)

●Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC): Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (2009, updated 2019)

Europe

●European Association of Urology (EAU): Guidelines on paediatric urology, update (2024)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on urinary tract infection (recurrent) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2018, updated 2024)

●Public Health England (PHE): Guidance on urinary tract infections – Diagnostic tools for primary care (2007, updated 2024)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary tract infection in under 16s – Diagnosis and management (2022)

●NICE: Quality standard on urinary tract infection in children and young people (2013, updated 2022)

●NICE: Guideline on pyelonephritis (acute) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2018)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary tract infection (catheter-associated) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2018)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary tract infection (lower) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2018)

India

●Indian Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ISPN): Evidence-based clinical practice guideline for management of urinary tract infection and primary vesicoureteric reflux (2024)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not give routine prophylactic antibiotics to a child after the first urinary tract infection if at low risk of recurrent urinary tract infections (2021)

●Kidney Health Australia (KHA)-Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment (CARI): Guideline for diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection in children (2015)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Urological Association (JUA): Infection control guidelines in urology including urinary tract management, second revised edition (2021)