To the Editor: Talan et al. (March 3 issue)(1) slightly misstate the findings of an earlier summary to which I contributed.(2) My fellow authors and I concluded that prior studies of antibiotics administered in patients with uncomplicated abscesses were underpowered because the authors of those studies could not rule out the 5 to 10% superiority of antibiotics suggested in our review. The current study was well designed to address this concern. Comment is also warranted regarding the trial guidance provided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on an early end point that is required as the primary end point . . .
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Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2017.
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#16,140,533
of 25,972,223 outputs
Outputs from New England Journal of Medicine
#28,448
of 32,774 outputs
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#224,448
of 381,102 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New England Journal of Medicine
#264
of 310 outputs
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