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cord-306859-aqfgl9cm	Clough, Jennie N	Managing an IBD Infusion Unit During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Service Modifications and the Patient Perspective	2020-06-27		.txt	text/plain	518	36	58	title: Managing an IBD Infusion Unit During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Service Modifications and the Patient Perspective The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges to the provision of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) unit infusion services in terms of the redeployment of specialist staff and reduced capacity because of social distancing. Given the recommendation for patients to remain on their usual biologic medication wherever possible, 1 we modified our service to ensure that our patients were adequately protected on the unit and surveyed attenders regarding their views and concerns. Patients were telephoned 24 hours before their infusion to screen for COVID-19 symptoms and were advised to attend the unit unaccompanied. In addition, 25.2% of patients felt "very" or "somewhat uncomfortable" at the prospect of attending hospital for their usual infusion, but 80.2% felt on attending that the measures taken to reduce the risk of contact with COVID-19 were "completely adequate."	./cache/cord-306859-aqfgl9cm.txt	./txt/cord-306859-aqfgl9cm.txt