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. 2021 Apr 8;23(7):1733–1744. doi: 10.1111/codi.15622

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© 2021 The Authors. Colorectal Disease published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland

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The single most important lesson about how to make CRC services as safe and effective as possible for patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic (CNS, clinical nurse specialist; FIT, faecal immunochemical testing; MDT, multidisciplinary team; PPE, personal protective equipment). (Note: FIT involves the detection of abnormal levels of blood within the stool. Patients with a negative FIT and normal haemoglobin with vague symptoms can be reassured that their risk of CRC is very low. In patients with low‐risk symptoms but a positive FIT test, an urgent referral should be completed. FIT is therefore useful as a triage tool to guide the prioritization of investigations if there is limited diagnostic capacity [37, 38])