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## Background: In this brief report, we investigated the impact of covid-19 on outpatient stroke clinics and inpatient services and their recovery process. ## Methods: We sent a survey to physicians worldwide through the network of the world stroke organization to investigate the impact of covid-19 on stroke clinics. to farther along in recovering from the outbreak, we reviewed stroke and other neurology outpatient clinic visits (approximately 50% were stroke related) and the number of inpatient services from december 2019 to july 2020 in a large neurology department in shanghai, china, where there was no official city lockdown. ## Results: We received 112 valid survey responses from 46 countries, representing all continents except for antarctica. only seven of the survey responders (7/112, 6.3%) reported that they have kept their outpatient clinics open as usual, but they did exercise increased precautions for covid-19 by following recent guidelines regarding use of personal protective equipment and isolation techniques. the remainder of the respondents have either reduced outpatient clinic services or suspended outpatient clinics completely. telephone consultation or telemedicine

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Author

Zhao, Jing; Wang, Yong; Fisher, Marc; Liu, Renyu

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley (ISSN 1755-5930)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)