Electronic Consults for Infectious Diseases in a United States Multisite Academic Health System

We launched Infectious Disease electronic consultations (eConsults) in 2018. During the first 15.5 months, primary care practitioners submitted 328 eConsults; the most frequent reasons were a positive culture or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) result, syphilis, and latent tuberculosis. Practitioners...

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Autores principales: Wood, Brian R, Bender, Jessica A, Jackson, Sara, Rosengaus, Leah, Pottinger, Paul S, Gottlieb, Geoffrey S, Dhanireddy, Shireesha, Harrington, Robert D, Pruzhanskaya, Yuliya, Chew, Lisa D, Scott, John D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32328507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa101
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author Wood, Brian R
Bender, Jessica A
Jackson, Sara
Rosengaus, Leah
Pottinger, Paul S
Gottlieb, Geoffrey S
Dhanireddy, Shireesha
Harrington, Robert D
Pruzhanskaya, Yuliya
Chew, Lisa D
Scott, John D
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Bender, Jessica A
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Rosengaus, Leah
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description We launched Infectious Disease electronic consultations (eConsults) in 2018. During the first 15.5 months, primary care practitioners submitted 328 eConsults; the most frequent reasons were a positive culture or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) result, syphilis, and latent tuberculosis. Practitioners commonly requested advice on antimicrobial choice, clinical evaluation, and indications for treatment. Internal phone consultations decreased after eConsult implementation.
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spelling pubmed-71661172020-04-23 Electronic Consults for Infectious Diseases in a United States Multisite Academic Health System Wood, Brian R Bender, Jessica A Jackson, Sara Rosengaus, Leah Pottinger, Paul S Gottlieb, Geoffrey S Dhanireddy, Shireesha Harrington, Robert D Pruzhanskaya, Yuliya Chew, Lisa D Scott, John D Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We launched Infectious Disease electronic consultations (eConsults) in 2018. During the first 15.5 months, primary care practitioners submitted 328 eConsults; the most frequent reasons were a positive culture or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) result, syphilis, and latent tuberculosis. Practitioners commonly requested advice on antimicrobial choice, clinical evaluation, and indications for treatment. Internal phone consultations decreased after eConsult implementation. Oxford University Press 2020-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7166117/ /pubmed/32328507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa101 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Rosengaus, Leah
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Gottlieb, Geoffrey S
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Harrington, Robert D
Pruzhanskaya, Yuliya
Chew, Lisa D
Scott, John D
Electronic Consults for Infectious Diseases in a United States Multisite Academic Health System
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa101
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