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A multi-centre prospective study of COVID-19 transmission following outpatient Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in the United Kingdom

2020-08-04

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<h4>Message</h4> The COVID-19 pandemic has severely curtailed the practice of endoscopy (as an exemplar for outpatient diagnostic procedures) worldwide. Restart and recovery processes will be influenced by the need to protect patients and staff from disease transmission, but data on the risk of COVID-19 transmission after endoscopy are sparse. This is of particular importance in later pandemic phases when the risk...

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Literature Corpus work: 7296903d-73bb-5347-a91d-6d000faef38d
DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.02.20166736

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