Canadian emergency department best practices checklist for skin and soft tissue infections part 2: skin abscess

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit F660b, University of Ottawa, 1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y4E9, Canada. kyadav@toh.ca.
• ² Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. kyadav@toh.ca.
• ³ School of Epidemiology and Public Health (SEPH), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. kyadav@toh.ca.
• ⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Health Sciences North, Sudbury, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Health Sciences North Research Institute, Sudbury, ON, Canada.
• ⁶ Clinical Sciences Division, Northern Ontario Medical School University, Sudbury, ON, Canada.
• ⁷ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
• ⁸ Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit F660b, University of Ottawa, 1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y4E9, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ¹¹ School of Epidemiology and Public Health (SEPH), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ¹² Pharmacy Department, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ¹³ Emergency Department, Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁵ Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁶ Emergency Department, Brant Community Healthcare System, Brantford, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁸ Division of Infectious Diseases, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁹ Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ²⁰ Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ²¹ Patient Research Partner, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ²² Health Sciences Library, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.