Reply to “Minimizing Antibiotic Misuse through Evidence-Based Management of Outpatient Acute Respiratory Infections”
Author(s) -
Jennifer Schroeck,
Christine Ruh,
John A. Sellick,
Michael Ott,
Arun Mattappallil,
Kari A. Mergenhagen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07
H-Index - 259
eISSN - 1070-6283
pISSN - 0066-4804
DOI - 10.1128/aac.01756-15
Subject(s) - intensive care medicine , medicine , antibiotics , respiratory tract infections , respiratory system , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
We thank [Sanchez et al.][1] ([1][2]) for their comments on our paper ([2][3]) and apologize for the confusion as to the definitions used in that study. The time frame of the retrospective chart review was 2009 to 2011. We chose to assess appropriateness of antibiotics based on criteria available at
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