Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2005; 41:1373–406
Soft-tissue infections are common, generally of mild to modest severity, and are easily treated with a variety of agents… Clinical assessment of the severity of infection is crucial, and several classification schemes and algorithms have been proposed to guide the clinician. However, most clinical assessments have been developed from either retrospective studies or from an author’s own “clinical experience,” illustrating the need for prospective studies with defined measurements of severity coupled to management issues and outcomes.