Reply to the Letter to the Editor-Clinical prediction rules used to rule out endocarditis must be assessed against a sensitive reference standard

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¹ Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
² Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: andrew.morris@sinaihealthsystem.ca.

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A D Bai et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018 Mar.

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. 2018 Mar;24(3):317-320.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.10.014. Epub 2017 Oct 23.

¹ Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
² Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: andrew.morris@sinaihealthsystem.ca.

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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.
Heriot GS, Cheng AC, Tong SYC, Liew D. Heriot GS, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018 Mar;24(3):314-316. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.09.021. Epub 2017 Oct 10. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018. PMID: 29030169 No abstract available.