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- Title
Emergency Department Visit Rates for Abscess Versus Other Skin Infections During the Emergence of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 1997–2007.
- Authors
Qualls, Munirih L.; Mooney, Megan M.; Camargo, Carlos A.; Zucconi, Tanya; Hooper, David C.; Pallin, Daniel J.
- Abstract
Due to a flaw in the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification coding system, epidemiology of skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs) has conflated abscess with other SSTIs. We analyzed emergency department visits during 1997–2007, finding that the odds of abscess relative to any other diagnosis increased 11% per year, or 3.1-fold, whereas other SSTIs increased minimally.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medical personnel; MEDICAL care costs; SKIN infections; METHICILLIN-resistant staphylococcus aureus; NOSOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SOFT tissue infections
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012, Vol 55, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/cis342