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cord-306646-6c7n0xir	Crimi, Claudia	Resumption of Respiratory Outpatient Services in the COVID-19 era: experience from Southern Italy	2020-07-02		.txt	text/plain	1249	77	47	This manuscript describes the experience of a Southern Italy Respiratory Unit for safely resuming outpatient respiratory services and preventing COVID-19 transmission. The Sars-CoV-2 infection is mainly transmitted by respiratory droplets 3 and close contact, and both respiratory clinicians and patients are at increased risk for transmission during the outpatient visit and the pulmonary function testing procedures. Therefore, a plan to manage the health issues of people with pre-existing chronic lung conditions is essential to prevent an inevitably indirect effect of COVID-19 on these frail patients that could be devastating, increasing deaths and disabilities. We need to change the way we provided care to patients so far and co-habit with the "silent enemy", since chronic severe medical conditions still exist despite COVID-19, and we need to take care of them taking urgent and effective actions in continuing to assist chronic respiratory diseases while preventing infection dissemination.	./cache/cord-306646-6c7n0xir.txt	./txt/cord-306646-6c7n0xir.txt