Clinical Usefulness of Imaging and Blood Cultures in Cellulitis Evaluation

Abstract

a shorter course of treatment with azithromycin does not involve a shorter duration of antibiotic exposure. ur study has limitations. First, we were not able to account for underlying conditions or other indicators for longer courses of antibiotic therapy. Second, by excluding visits with a diagnosis of unspecified sinusitis from our analysis, we may have excluded some cases of acute sinusitis. However, the findings of a sensitivity analysis that included cases of both acute and unspecified sinusitis were similar (median duration of therapy, 10.0 days; 88.1% [95% CI, 85.1%-91.0%] of nonazithromycin antibiotic courses were 10 days or longer in duration).