Purulent Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, Challenging the Practice of Incision and Drainage: A Scoping Review

Table 5

Authors’ professions in SSTI research over time.

Year	Retrieved studies	Profession of lead author (s)	Profession of supporting author (s)
1984	Llera et al. [68]	Emergency physician x1	Physician x1
			Microbiologist x1
2005	Eryilmaz et al. [69]	Surgeon x1	Surgeon x3
2009	Tsoraides et al. [70]	Surgeon x1	Surgeon x1
			Paediatric surgeon x2
			Nurse x1
2010	McNamara et al. [65]	Surgeon x1	Surgeon x2
			Paediatric surgeon x3
2011	Alder et al. [64]	Paediatric surgeon x1	Paediatric surgeon x3
			Nurse practitioner x1
			Nurse x1
2011	Gaspari et al. [19]	Emergency physician x1	Emergency physician x4
2011	Singer et al. [67]	Emergency physician x1	Associate professor of emergency medicine x1
			Professor of emergency medicine x1
			Emergency physician x2
2012	Winstead [71]	Nurse x1	No supporting authors
2014	Singer and Talan [72]	Emergency physician x2	No supporting authors
2015	Ladde et al. [73]	Emergency physician x1	Emergency physician x2
			Research physician x1
2015	Mahida et al. [74]	Surgeon x1	Surgeon x5
			Emergency physician x1
			Research scientist x1
2016	Rencher et al. [66]	Paediatric physician x1	Emergency physician x2
			Paediatric physician x1
2017	Yang et al. [33]	Paediatric surgeon x1	Paediatric surgery team (not otherwise described) x4
			Professor (not otherwise described) x1
			Physician x2
			Research assistant x1
2017	Özturan et al. [75]	Emergency physician x1	Emergency physician x6
2017	Lasithotakis et al. [32]	Surgeon x1	Surgeon x3
			Emergency physician x1
2019	Long and April [76]	Emergency physician x2	No supporting authors
2020	Schechter-Perkins et al. [21]	Emergency physician x1	Emergency physician x1
			Medical physician x1
			Nurse x1
			Research professor x1
			Unknown x3
2020	Zhimin et al. [77]	Emergency physician x1	Emergency physician x1
			Unknown x3
2021	Gottlieb et al. [57]	Emergency physician x1	Emergency physician x2