Allergy and asthma specialists can use e-consults to reduce the number of unnecessary referrals by providing access to advice within the electronic health record, according to a letter published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
Prepared templates and open-ended options both were useful in submitting e-consult requests as well, Matthew R. McCulloch, MD, a fellow in allergy and immunology at Children’s Hospital Colorado at the time of the study and current assistant professor of allergy and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues wrote in the
