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Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology
2006 October, Vol. IX, No. 1 (3342-3382)
LITHUANIAN EVIDENCE BASED GUIDELINES OF TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN
Arunas Valiulis1,6(ed.), Valdone Miseviciene2,6, Elena Suciliene4,6, Jurgis Bojarskas2,7, Dalia Steponaviciene5,7, Dane Slapkauskaite3,7
1 Vilnius University Clinic of Children's Diseases, Vilnius,
2 Kaunas Medical Univesity Clinic of Children's Diseases, Kaunas,
3 Siauliai University Faculty of Special Pedagogics, Siauliai,
4 State University Hospital of TB and Infectious Diseases, Vilnius,
5 Kaunas 2nd Clinical Hospital, Kaunas,
6 Lithuanian Paediatric Respiratory Society,
7 Lithuanian Paediatric Society
First Lithuanian Evidence Based Guidelines of Tuberculosis in Children is current recommendations of the diagnostics, management and prophylaxis of tuberculosis in children and designed to paediatric pulmonologists, paediatricians and family doctors. It was educational iniciative of Lithuanian Paediatric Respiratory Society. The Guidelines are elaborated using two different methods – Evidence Based Medicine and Consensus Report of scientists from Vilnius University, Kaunas Medical University, Siauliai University, State University Hospital of TB and Infectious Diseses, Kaunas 2nd Clinical Hospital as well as Lithuanian Paediatric Respiratory Society, Lithuanian Paediatric Society, Lithuanian Society of General Practitioners with close collaboration with the representatives of Lithuanian State TB Control Programme 2003–2006. The Guidelines first time presented and approved in Baltic bridge 2006: Conference on Guidelines, Standards and Algorithms in Pulmonology and Allergology (Vilnius, October 6, 2006).