Authors' Response

[...]it was driven by a question which arose during antimicrobial stewardship activities, i.e., significance of procalcitonin based decision in different settings within a hospital. The data for this single study, however, need to be entered and depicted to enable overall pooling which is represented at the end of the [Figure 1] In fact, deleting this information would not only have flawed meta-analysis but also rendered the Forest plot incomplete. [...]they made a case for pooling the data using appropriate methodology in case heterogeneity was present[6].