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Subject area	Microbiology
More specific subject area	Abscess, wound care, MRSA, incision and drainage, clinical cure rates
Type of data	Table, figure
How data was acquired	Patients were screened in the emergency department if they had a skin abscess. Patients who met criteria were enrolled. Clinical data was collected including demographic data and location and size of abscess. Would cultures were collected by the treating physician. Healing rates, adverse events, and wound measurements were collected by an investigator at 7–10 days following the initial incision and drainage. Patients were called at 30 days to determine if they had a recurrence of their skin abscess.
Data format	Analyzed
Experimental factors	Topical povodine-iodine solution antiseptic solution
Experimental features	Randomized controlled trial to determine clinical effectiveness of a topical antiseptic agent in addition to incision and drainage in the treatment of cutaneous abscesses
Data source location	San Antonio, TX
Data accessibility	Data is in this article
Related research article	Olson A, Rosenblatt L, Salerno N. et al., Pilot Study to Evaluate the Adjunct Use of a Povidone-Iodine Topical Antiseptic in Patients with Soft Tissue Abscesses. Journal of Emergency Medicine, (in press).