Clinical predictors and prediction rules to estimate initial patient risk for infective endocarditis in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: attention must be paid to the reference standard

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¹ School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
² School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia; Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia.
⁴ School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: danny.liew@monash.edu.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.09.021. Epub 2017 Oct 10.

¹ School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
² School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia; Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia.
⁴ School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: danny.liew@monash.edu.

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Reply to the Letter to the Editor-Clinical prediction rules used to rule out endocarditis must be assessed against a sensitive reference standard.
Bai AD, Steinberg M, Bell CM, Morris AM. Bai AD, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018 Mar;24(3):317-320. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.10.014. Epub 2017 Oct 23. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018. PMID: 29074156 No abstract available.

Clinical predictors and clinical prediction rules to estimate initial patient risk for infective endocarditis in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Bai AD, Agarwal A, Steinberg M, Showler A, Burry L, Tomlinson GA, Bell CM, Morris AM. Bai AD, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2017 Dec;23(12):900-906. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.04.025. Epub 2017 May 6. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2017. PMID: 28487168