PediBot/pedibot-sources

Paediatric guidance for parents — an open catalogue

632 documents from 21 organisations, in 8 languages, each classified by topic and linked to its original.

Guidance written for parents — what to do when a child has a fever, when to worry about a rash, how to rehydrate after vomiting — is published by health services, medical societies and health ministries across a dozen countries. It is public, it is good, and it is scattered: there is no single machine-readable index of it. This is one.

What is in here, and what is not

In: the catalogue. Organisation, full name of the organisation, document title, year, language, topic, document type, the URL of the original, and usage — what may be done with that document.

Not in: the documents themselves, or any text extracted from them. They belong to the NHS, the WHO, the CDC, the AAP, the RKI and the rest. Pointing at them is a service to their authors; copying them would not be. Follow the url column to the source.

Files

file	what it is
sources.csv	the catalogue, one row per document
sources.json	the same, as an array of objects

Columns

column	notes
doc_id	stable identifier, unique in this catalogue
org / org_full	the publisher, short and full
title	as published, in the document's own language — never translated
year	where the document states one (264 of 632 do)
lang	ISO 639-1 of the document itself
topic	our classification, see below
doc_type	e.g. hoja_padres (parent leaflet), guia_clinica, ficha_tecnica
usage	publico (584) may be reproduced under its publisher's terms; citar_solo (48) may be cited and linked, not reproduced
url	link to the original (584 of 632 are online; the rest are books and printed manuals, identified in notes)
notes	ISBN, edition, or how to find a document that has no URL

By organisation

organisation	documents
WHO — World Health Organization	214
NHS — NHS (National Health Service, England)	156
MedlinePlus — MedlinePlus (U.S. National Library of Medicine)	118
CDC — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)	38
RKI — Robert Koch-Institut (Deutschland)	30
SEUP — Sociedad Española de Urgencias de Pediatría	29
Ministério da Saúde — Ministério da Saúde (Brasil)	14
Gouvernement du Canada — Gouvernement du Canada / Government of Canada (santé publique)	10
AEPap — Familia y Salud — Asociación Española de Pediatría de Atención Primaria	5
AAP — American Academy of Pediatrics	4
AEP — Asociación Española de Pediatría — Protocolos de Neonatología (Doménech, González, Rodríguez-Alarcón)	2
Junta de Andalucía — Consejería de Salud de la Junta de Andalucía	2
NHM — National Health Mission, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India	2
AEMPS — Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios — CIMA (prospecto autorizado)	1
College of the Canyons — College of the Canyons — Open Educational Resource (Paris, Ricardo, Rymond)	1
Ecimed — Editorial Ciencias Médicas (La Habana)	1
H. Niño Jesús — Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús (Casado Flores, Jiménez García)	1
H. U. Donostia — Hospital Universitario Donostia — Comité de Política Antibiótica	1
Ministerio de Sanidad — Ministerio de Sanidad (España) — Consejo Interterritorial del SNS	1
NHSRC — National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India	1
PUC Chile — Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile — Escuela de Medicina	1

By language

language	documents
English (en)	313
Spanish (es)	113
Arabic (ar)	56
French (fr)	49
Russian (ru)	47
German (de)	30
Portuguese (pt)	14
hi (hi)	10

By topic (23 topics)

topic	documents
piel	70
respiratorio	68
digestivo	65
general	63
accidentes	53
vacunas	48
alimentacion	37
desarrollo	36
salud_mental	22
orl	19
neurologia	17
fiebre	17
medicamentos	16
recien_nacido	15
alergia	15
crianza	13
urgencias	13
ojos	12
intoxicacion	10
dental	9
lactante	8
auto	3
urinario	3

How it was put together

By reading. Each document was found, checked to be current, classified and linked by hand. Selection favoured guidance written for parents over clinical guidance written for doctors, and organisations that publish openly and keep what they publish updated.

It is not exhaustive and does not pretend to be: it is what one project needed to answer parents' questions without inventing anything. Gaps are real. German has fewer sources than English because there is genuinely less openly published German material for parents; Arabic and Russian have fewer still.

Where it comes from

This is the source catalogue behind PediBot, which answers parents' questions using only these documents and names the document in every clinical sentence. The catalogue is published separately because it is useful on its own — to anyone building something similar, and to anyone who wants to check our work.

The live version is always at https://pedibot.xyz/sources.json.

Licence

The catalogue — the classification, the topic taxonomy, the curation — is released under CC0 1.0: use it for anything, no attribution required, though a link back is appreciated. This applies to the catalogue only. The documents it points to are the property of their publishers and are governed by whatever terms each of them sets.

Using it

from datasets import load_dataset

d = load_dataset("csv", data_files="sources.csv")["train"]
print(d[0]["org"], d[0]["title"], d[0]["usage"], d[0]["url"])

Citation

@software{beca_pedibot,
  author    = {Beca, Nicolás},
  title     = {PediBot — a paediatric answer with the source attached},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.22932517},
  url       = {https://pedibot.xyz}
}

Not medical advice

This is an index of documents, not medical guidance. Nothing here is a diagnosis and nothing here replaces a doctor. If a child is unwell, the right move is to ask one.