Predictors of failure of empiric outpatient antibiotic therapy in emergency department patients with uncomplicated cellulitis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 526-531

  Peterson, Daniel ^a   McLeod, Shelley ^a   Woolfrey, Karen ^a   McRae, Andrew ^b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELLULITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG USE; EDEMA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; LEG ULCER; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT HISTORY OF SURGERY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INFECTION; SMOKING; SWELLING; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; WOUND; WOUND INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELLULITIS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; OUTPATIENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901009710     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12371     Document Type: Article

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