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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Emerg Med. 2018 Aug 28;55(5):693–701. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2018.07.010

Table 3.

Comparison of Treatment Outcomes of Subjects in POCUS and Non-POCUS Groups

Variable POCUS (n = 232) Non-POCUS (n = 95) p-Value
Surgical procedure, n (%) 141 (60.8) 38 (40.0) <0.001
 Incision & drainage 122 (52.6) 33 (34.7) 0.0033
 Needle aspiration 7 (3.0) 1 (1.1) 0.446
 Manual expression 15 (6.5) 5 (5.3) 0.680
Blood culture positive, n (%) 1 (0.43) 0 (0) 1.000
Wound culture positive, n (%) 105(45.2) 28 (29.5) 0.517
Discharge, n (%) 166 (71.6) 66 (69.5) 0.876
Length of stay (minutes)* 139.5(99.5–245)* 162.0 (92–264)* 0.935

POCUS = point-of-care ultrasound.

*

Median (interquartile range).