1659. Electronic Consultations Combined with a Video Supported Powerpoint-based Pre-Travel Education Is Equivalent to In-Clinic Face-to-Face Pre-Travel Consultations in Appropriately Selected Travelers

摘要

BackgroundPre-travel consultation involves an in-clinic face-to-face consult (F2F) with a Travel Medicine provider. F2F involves education/counseling which is time-consuming for both patients and providers. Although electronic consultations (synchronous and asynchronous) are well established in many subspecialties, pretravel eConsults are not well known. We compared pretravel education via F2F to an innovative hybrid electronic consultation (HeC) combined with a Video Supported PowerPoint (VSP) for selected travelers.