Letter
Procalcitonin to guide duration of antibiotic therapy in intensive care patients: some research questions
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Correspondence: Robert E Kahn rs_kahn@hotmail.com
Avian Flu Action, 40 St Stephen Road, Great Sankey, Warrington WA5 2BJ, UK
Critical Care 2009, 13:414 doi:10.1186/cc7958
Published: 30 July 2009First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
The article by Hochreiter and colleagues on the use of procalcitonin to guide duration of antibiotic therapy in intensive care patients is timely and significant, but it raises a number of unresolved issues [1].