1638. Tele-Infectious Disease Consultation Produces Equivalent Outcomes as In-Person Consultation

Technology can extend Infection Disease Consultants (IDCs) into resource limited small community US hospitals. We compared in-person infectious disease (ID) consults with Tele-ID consults to determine whether length of stay, antibiotic usage, drug cost, or readmission rates will remain the same between both groups over a 3-month period