TY  - JOUR
T1  - DO not abandon cultures—reply
AU  - Jenkins TC, Burman WJ
Y1  - 2011/06/27
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.261
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1128
EP  - 1128
VL  - 171
IS  - 12
N2  - 
We appreciate the letter by Dr Johnson in response to our study describing the impact of a clinical practice guideline on antibiotic and health care resource utilization for inpatient cellulitis and cutaneous abscess.1 He suggests that our phrasing, “significant decrease in the use of microbiological cultures,” may inadvertently discourage providers from obtaining appropriate cultures. To clarify, in our guideline published as an eFigure along with the article, we advocate performing cultures for all abscess drainage procedures and the selective use of blood cultures and we discourage use of wound swab cultures.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.261
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.261
ER  -