Implementation of Outpatient Infectious Diseases E-Consults at a Safety Net Healthcare System.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Safety net healthcare systems have high patient volumes and significant demands for specialty care including infectious diseases (ID) consultations. Electronic ID consults (E-consults) can lessen this burden by providing an alternative to face-to-face ID referrals and decreasing financial, time, and travel constraints on patients. This system could increase access to ID care for patients in limited-resource settings.

Methods

We described characteristics of all outpatient ID E-consults at Parkland Health in Dallas, Texas, from March 2018 to February 2021. We used modeling to determine which characteristics influenced conversion of E-consults to clinic visits and integrated these data into a predictive model for face-to-face conversion.

Results

For 725 E-cons

SUBMITTER: Medford RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9315945 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature