Chloramphenicol Misuse (reply)

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Chloramphenicol.

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Reply to "Minimizing Antibiotic Misuse through Evidence-Based Management of Outpatient Acute Respiratory Infections".

We thank Sanchez et al. (1) for their comments on our paper (2) 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 the time of prescribing, rather than on those currently available. As stated in that paper, the rapid antigen d...

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