This website has been created by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) in order to provide healthcare professionals with quick and easy access to clinical guidelines in a user-friendly manner.
The site includes interactive guideline tools, advice guides, advice videos as well as links to the full published guidelines from a range of academic journals including ESPGHAN’s own journal, The Journal of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (JPGN).
Here you can find gastrointestinal guidelines and tools that can help you detect and treat problems with the gastrointestinal tract in young children.
In this section, you can access our tools for nutrition guidelines that can help cure and protect young children's intestinal tract.
Here you can find guidelines in hepatology that will help diagnose and treat hepatology related diseases.
Watch guide video about paediatric
gastroenterology
Read abridged versions of clinical papers
about paediatric gastroenterology
The European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) is a multi-professional organisation whose aim is to promote the health of children with special attention to the gastrointestinal tract, liver and nutritional status, through knowledge creation, the dissemination of science based information, the promotion of best practice in the delivery of care and the provision of high quality education for paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition professionals in Europe and beyond.
ESPGHAN is not responsible for the practices of physicians and provides guidelines and position papers as indicators of best practice only. Diagnosis and treatment is at the discretion of physicians.