Infectious diseases specialist management improves outcomes for outpatients diagnosed with cellulitis in the emergency department: a double cohort study

Three hospital emergency rooms (ERs) routinely referred all cases of cellulitis requiring outpatient intravenous antibiotics, to a central ER-staffed cellulitis clinic. We performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients seen by the ER clinic in the last 4 months preceding a policy change (ER management cohort [ERMC]) (n = 149) and all those seen in the first 3 months of a new policy of automatic referral to an infectious disease (ID)...