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Practice Guideline
. 2020 Aug;115(8):1153-1155.
doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000728.

Management of Digestive Disorders and Procedures Associated With COVID-19

Xiaomei Zhang  1 , Chengwei Tang  2 , Dean Tian  3 , Xiaohua Hou  4 , Yunsheng Yang  1
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Practice Guideline

Management of Digestive Disorders and Procedures Associated With COVID-19

Xiaomei Zhang et al. Am J Gastroenterol. 2020 Aug.
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Conflict of interest statement

Guarantor of the article: Yunsheng Yang, MD, and Chengwei Tang, MD.

Specific author contributions: Y.Y. was responsible for the idea, outlined and prepared the initial and final drafts of the manuscript. All authors were involved in drafting or critically revising the manuscript. All authors approved the final draft submitted.

Financial support: None to report.

Potential competing interests: None to report.

Ethics: None to report.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Workflow of digestive outpatient setting during SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Risk stratification and PPE for endoscopy procedure during SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. *PPE, Personal protect equipment; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
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