Author ORCID Identifier
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-4-2020
Abstract
Digestive manifestations appear to be common in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19). Gastroenterologists will invariably come into contact with infected patients, and the risk of intraprocedural exposure is well established. Recommendations have been issued to guide personal protective equipment (PPE) use and the triage of procedural urgency, among other operational considerations. In response, institutions providing gastroenterology and endoscopy services have taken urgent action to protect patients and staff, but the uptake and extent of these practice changes in North America is unknown. We conducted a survey of gastroenterology and endoscopy practices to assess the response to the COVID-19 pandemic across the continent.
Keywords
COVID-19 (disease), communicable diseases, coronavirus infections
Publication Title
Gastroenterology
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© 2020 by the AGA Institute. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
Recommended Citation
Forbes N, Smith ZL, Spitzer RL, Keswani RN, Wani SB, Elmunzer BJ, on behalf of the North American Alliance for the Study of Digestive Manifestations of COVID-19, Changes in Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Practices in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from a North American Survey, Gastroenterology (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2020.04.071.