Response to Letters Regarding Optimizing Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia with the Goal of Rapid Resolution of Illness

• Published in: Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 43; no. 1; p. 111
• Main Authors: File, Thomas M., Tan, James S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford The University of Chicago Press 01.07.2006; University of Chicago Press; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Clinical trials; Correspondence; Diseases; Drug therapy; Experimentation; Illnesses; Pathogens; Pneumonia

However, the primary emphasis of our commentary was not to address the relative efficacy of either of the 2 regimens evaluated in this study, hut rather to discuss the importance of including a systematic evaluation of the speed of resolution of illness as an end point for future randomized, clinica...