Trusted Guidance for
Helping healthcare professionals and parents safely manage children’s symptoms with expert advice since 1988.
Consistent, Safe
Decisions
Trusted by Pediatricians
and Nurses
30+ Years of
Proven Expertise
When a child is sick, quality matters – for the child, the parent, and the healthcare professional.
Schmitt Pediatric Guidelines bridges the gap between uncertainty and action, providing trusted, evidence-based clinical content that empowers medical teams and families to make informed decisions.
Our decision support tools ensure millions of children receive the right care at the right time every year.
Trusted by Healthcare Professionals Worldwide
- Over 30 years supporting nurses, doctors, and parents with evidence-based tools.
- 1,000+ topics covering pediatric symptoms, conditions, and diagnoses.
- Used by tens of thousands of physicians and nurses.
- Integrated into thousands of hospitals, clinics, and practices.
- 500+ care advice handouts to educate and empower parents and other caregivers of infants, children, and adolescents.
Pediatric Clinical Content Sets
For Telephone Triage Nurses
After Hours
Telephone Triage Protocols
When the office is closed, protocols help nurses triage patients, reduce provider calls, minimize unnecessary ER visits, and guide parents to the right level of care—whether at home, the medical office the next day, or an ER.
Office Hours
Telephone Triage Protocols
When the office is open, protocols help nurses triage patients and guide parents to the right level of care—whether at home for question only calls or the medical office today or tomorrow for most symptom calls.
For Nurses and Doctors
Care Advice Handouts
Handouts provide clear care advice instructions to parents, shortening nurse call time and provider visit times while increasing parent compliance with treatment plans.
For Parents and Consumers
Symptom Checker Care Guides
Allows parents to independently make informed self-triage and care decisions, reducing the burden on telephone triage nurses while also reducing unnecessary ER visits.
For Non-Clinical Call Center Agents
Symptom Screening Guides
Allows non-clinical staff to quickly prioritize calls into emergent, urgent, or low priority nurse callback queues with no clinical decision making required.
Building on a Legacy of Excellence in Pediatric Care
The Editorial Team Behind Schmitt Pediatric Guidelines
At Schmitt Pediatric Guidelines, a dedicated team of pediatricians, nurses, and healthcare professionals works collaboratively to create trusted decision support tools that telehealth nurses, healthcare providers, and families can rely on.
Led by Dr. Barton Schmitt, MD, FAAP—a pioneer in pediatric telephone triage and advice—our team ensures every piece of content reflects decades of expertise, consistent medical reasoning, evidence-based practice, and continuous quality improvement in pediatric care.
Grounded in Actual Call
Center Practice
Every year, the call centers at over 20 children’s hospitals and many top medical centers provide feedback to help update and refine our clinical content, ensuring it remains current and is grounded in actual user experience. We strongly encourage user feedback and consider it essential for excellence in quality care.
Trusted by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Our clinical content is updated regularly to be in sync with the AAP’s latest clinical practice guidelines, recommendations and standards of care. In fact, the AAP has incorporated three of our products into their tools for pediatricians, nurses, and parents:
- Pediatric Telephone Protocols, 18th edition
- Pediatric Care Advice Handouts Collection
- Pediatric Symptom Checker
This shared effort has increased the impact of these tools on pediatric healthcare and ensured that more children receive the right care at the right time.
What Makes SPG Content Different
Written by
Trusted Experts
Backed by over 100 combined years of experience in patient triage and care, our tools are carefully crafted and updated by our board-certified pediatricians and registered nurses.
Made for Everyone
Who Cares for Kids
Tools designed to support telehealth nurses, parents, and call center agents in making confident, evidence-based decisions about a child’s symptoms.
Supporting Best
Practice Care
Expert-based tools to ensure children get the right care at the right time while offloading unnecessary demand on health care providers.
Interconnected
Clinical Content
All of our content is built on the same medical reasoning—ensuring seamless guidance across nurse protocols, consumer symptom checkers, and parent handouts.