Society guideline links: Chronic cough 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: Asthma in children".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Asthma in adolescents and adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Subacute and chronic cough in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Bronchiectasis".)

International

●Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA): Global strategy for asthma management and prevention, update (2023)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't recommend the use of cough and cold remedies in children under six years of age (2021)

United States

●American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST): Guideline and expert panel report – Global physiology and pathophysiology of cough: Part 2. Demographic and clinical considerations (2021)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Managing chronic cough as a symptom in children and management algorithms (2020)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Managing chronic cough due to asthma and NAEB in adults and adolescents (2020)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Chronic cough and gastroesophageal reflux in children (2019)

●CHEST: Expert panel report – Chronic cough related to acute viral bronchiolitis in children (2018)

●CHEST: Expert panel report – Treating cough due to non-CF and CF bronchiectasis with nonpharmacological airway clearance (2018)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Clinically diagnosing pertussis-associated cough in adults and children (2018)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Cough due to TB and other chronic infections (2018)

●CHEST: Expert panel report – Pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment for acute cough associated with the common cold (2017)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Cough in the athlete (2017)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Etiologies of chronic cough in pediatric cohorts (2017)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Management of children with chronic wet cough and protracted bacterial bronchitis (2017)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Use of management pathways or algorithms in children with chronic cough (2017)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Somatic cough syndrome (previously referred to as psychogenic cough) and tic cough (previously referred to as habit cough) in adults and children (2015)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Tools for assessing outcomes in studies of chronic cough (2015)

●CHEST: Guideline and expert panel report – Overview of the management of cough (2014)

Europe

●European Respiratory Society (ERS): Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of chronic cough in adults and children (2020)

●ERS: Statement on the protracted bacterial bronchitis in children (2017)

●ERS: Expert opinion on the cough hypersensitivity syndrome in respiratory medicine (2014)

United Kingdom

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and British Thoracic Society (BTS): British guideline on the management of asthma, update (2019)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on asthma (2013, updated 2018)

●BTS: Guidelines – Recommendations for the assessment and management of cough in children (2008)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian cough guidelines summary statement on CICADA: Cough in children and adults – Diagnosis and assessment (2010)