Cellulitis: Treatment failure or failure to define treatment failure?
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Keijzers, Gerben
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Dear Editor, Cellulitis is a common ED diagnosis and antibiotics are part of routine management. Each year, almost 60 000 people are hospitalised for treatment of cellulitis in Australia, of which an estimated 11% were deemed preventable.1 Appropriate antibiotic selection involves the right antibiotic type, dosage and route of administration. Multiple randomised controlled trials and a Cochrane review2 suggest oral antibiotics are non‐inferior to i.v. administration for most patients. We have previously highlighted the need to review unnecessary i.v. antibiotics use in more detail.3
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Emergency Medicine Australasia
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© 2020 ACEM and ASEM. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cellulitis: Treatment failure or failure to define treatment failure?, Emergency Medicine Australasia, Early View, 2020, which has been published in final form at 10.1111/1742-6723.13688. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Etheridge, N; Keijzers, G, Cellulitis: Treatment failure or failure to define treatment failure?, Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2020