The study looked at 234 seriously ill and injured children presenting to 8 rural EDs with access to pediatric critical care physicians from an academic children’s hospital. 73 received telemedicine consultations, 85 received telephone consultations, and 76 received no specialist consultations. Medications for patients who received telemedicine consultations had significantly fewer physician-related errors (3.4%) than medications for patients who received telephone consultations (10.8%) or no consultations (12.5%).
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