Background In‐hospital consultation is essential for patient care. We previously proposed a
framework of seven specific consultation types to classify consult requests to improve …

Consultation amongst providers is a foundation of modern health care and one of the most
frequent means of interdisciplinary communication. Accordingly, clear and efficient …

Background: Consistent classification of consult requests may lead to more productive,
efficient, and collegial conversations about patient care which can facilitate improved work …

Importance Inpatient subspecialty consultations, a common and expensive practice within
inpatient medicine, do not always go well; however, little is known about the failure modes of …

Background Communication and courtesy are important elements of consultations, but there
is limited published data about the quality of trainee consults. Objectives This study …

Purpose To characterize the methods of inpatient consult communication, given new
communication modalities; to explore residents' and fellows' perspectives on the ideal …

Introduction The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's milestones require
internal medicine residents to have competency in calling consults. Based on a literature …

BACKGROUND Medicine subspecialty consultation is becoming increasingly important in
inpatient medicine. OBJECTIVE We conducted a survey study in which we examined …

Although general medicine consultation is an integral component of inpatient medical care
and a requirement of internal medicine training, little is known about current consultative …

Inpatient consultation is widely used by hospital physician teams to access specialized
expertise and procedures. However, the quality of the resultant consultation varies widely …