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Curbside consultations are widespread in medicine, but how they relate to patient care is largely unknown. Researchers conducted a prospective single-center study that involved 18 hospitalists to compare the accuracy, completeness, and recommendations of curbside versus formal consultations for 47 hospitalized patients.
After completing a curbside consultation, a hospitalist requested verbal approval from the requesting provider to perform a formal consultation in the same patient. If granted, a formal consultation was completed by a different hospitalist within a few hours. The two hospitalists determined whether the information obtained during the curbside consultation was complete and accurate compared with that of the formal consultation…