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The consultation request process between primary care and specialty services often contains paper-based components that may be inefficient and difficult to track. Other barriers may include workarounds and communication breakdowns with the potential to adversely impact delivery of quality medical care. We investigated current challenges to the electronic outpatient consult management process in the...