INFECTIOUS DISEASE/BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE Are Antibiotics Necessary After Incision and Drainage of a Cutaneous Abscess?
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From the Editor—Emergency physicians must often make decisions about patient management without clear-cut data of sufficient quality to support clinical guidelines or evidence-based reviews. Topics in the Best Available Evidence section must be relevant to emergency physicians, are formally peer-reviewed, and must have a sufficient literature base to draw a reasonable conclusion, but not such a large literature base that a traditional “evidence-based” review, meta-analysis or systematic review can be performed.
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Are antibiotics necessary after incision and drainage of a cutaneous abscess?
From the Editor—Emergency physicians must often make decisions about patient management without clear-cut data of sufficient quality to support clinical guidelines or evidence-based reviews. Topics in the Best Available Evidence section must be relevant to emergency physicians, are formally peer-reviewed, and must have a sufficient literature base to draw a reasonable conclusion, but not such a...
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