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cord-326399-ey8g4pom	Phadke, Neelam A.	Trends in Ambulatory Electronic Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-05-18		.txt	text/plain	915	52	44	title: Trends in Ambulatory Electronic Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic Hypothesizing that e-consult requests would increase during the pandemic, we sought to define COVID-19associated changes in e-consult requests. We assessed daily volumes from February 1, 2020, through April 1, 2020; the defined date of "intervention" was March 11, 2020, when Massachusetts declared a COVID-19-related state of emergency. We describe a significant increase in e-consult utilization relative to traditional ambulatory referrals following the COVID-19-related state of emergency declaration in Massachusetts. These results suggest an increase in e-consult utilization associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. This question is electronically transmitted to a specialist physician who reviews the question and clinical information in the EHR and provides clinical guidance including recommendations for further diagnostic testing or therapeutic management via a note entered in the patient's EHR.	./cache/cord-326399-ey8g4pom.txt	./txt/cord-326399-ey8g4pom.txt