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COVID-19 guideline update: Wear N95 masks during endoscopy

Publish date:: June 11, 2020

Key clinical point: Personnel should wear N95 masks when performing gastrointestinal procedures.

Major finding: Indirect evidence of two systematic reviews in 2017 and 2012 from SARS outbreak.

Study details: Rapid review and guideline using the GRADE approach – for Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation – and a modified methodology for developing rapid recommendations.

Disclosures: Author disclosures were not available. The American Gastroenterological Association Institute funded the study.

Citation:

Sultan S et al. Gastroenterology. 2020. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.03.072.

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