"external consultation" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used in a business or professional context where there is a need for outside expertise or advice. Example: Our company is going through a major restructuring and we have scheduled external consultations with industry experts to help us develop a strategic plan.
Both stages include widespread external consultation.
Or, by self-regulation from the BBC, where BBC editorial guidelines lay down the law without external consultation or a serious appeal process, short of going to law.
Unit costs of an admission at the maternity ward (occupied bed/day) and of an external consultation included all recurrent components and excluded capital costs.
The guideline went through an external consultation with stakeholders.
Click here to access the Report on the External Consultation for the Social Protection Strategic Framework.
2 The guideline was subject to a web based, external consultation from stakeholders.
Some expressed expectations involve support for implementation from external consultants (consultation, supervision, or team analysis), for instance, "supervision regarding conflict management within the team", "consultation and supervision regarding stressful experiences in patient care" or the desired "analysis of team processes".
Increasing the scope of commonly required services provided by the physician was suggested to decrease the number of external consultations.
Other areas of variability (e.g. quantity of external consultations (area 4)) were too close to the center to be interpretable.
Several sub-groups of ITPS members have been appointed to deal with some of these complex subjects, and to carry out the required extensive internal and external consultations.
Interestingly, the higher overall cost involved in diagnosing patients according to CPGs was accounted for almost entirely by increased hospitalisation (rather than by greater use of imaging or biopsy or external consultations) (Table 4).
