ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2025
Comparison of Periodic In-person ID Care to Daily Tele-ID Care at a Community Hospital.
Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- How Does Tele-ID Inpatient Care Compare to In-Person Care? Results from a Tertiary Academic Medical Center.Telemedicine reportsArticle
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Abstract
Background: Access to infectious diseases (ID) specialists is absent in most US counties. Remote access to ID specialists via telemedicine is a potential alternative to in-person ID care, although comparative data are lacking. Armstrong Center for Medicine and Health, a 164-bed community hospital located in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, that historically had periodic access to an in-person ID specialist every third business day established daily Tele-ID services in April 2020. We compared outcomes between periodic in-person ID care and daily Tele-ID care. Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review comparing the outcomes of 100 patients seen via periodic in-person ID care from January 2019 to November 2019 versus 100 patients seen via daily Tele-ID care provided through live audio-video telemedicine visits and electronic consults (e-consults) from May 2020 to August 2020. Results: The daily Tele-ID care group had significantly higher Charlson Comorbidity Index scores (5.3 vs 4.5, Conclusions: A Tele-ID service with daily availability increased the utilization of ID care at a community hospital. Despite higher Charlson Comorbidity Index scores in Tele-ID patients, length of stay was shorter and discharge on intravenous antibiotics was less frequent with no statistically significant difference in ID-related readmissions or in-hospital mortality. These findings support daily Tele-ID care as a potential solution where access to ID expertise is limited.
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