title: [Consult Online: digital advice for tropical doctors].
abstract: Consult Online is a telemedicine system used to provide advice to Dutch tropical doctors. Set up in 2008 by the Dutch Association of Tropical Doctors in Training, it aims to support tropical doctors who would otherwise not have access to specialist consult. By logging onto the website www.tropenopleiding.nl, they can consult over 50 experts from 17 different specialties, most of whom are Dutch specialists who have previously worked as tropical doctors. Four years after its start, Consult Online was evaluated: it had received 146 consultations from 15 different countries. Over half of these (54%) had been answered the same day; 79% within two days. The average number of reactions to a consultation was 3. In this way, Consult Online makes it possible to provide expert advice to doctors of patients in developing countries.
authors.affiliation: Mseleni Hospital, KwaZulu Natal, Zuid-Afrika.
authors.forename: Eva P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Baerends
authors.forename: Ellen M B P
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Reuling
authors.forename: Claudia B M
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Bijen
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009426:Netherlands; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D017216:Telemedicine; D014330:Tropical Medicine