European Association of Urology Guidelines Office Rapid Reaction Group: An Organisation-wide Collaborative Effort to Adapt the European Association of Urology Guidelines Recommendations to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Era

Ribal, M. J.; Cornford, P.; Briganti, A.; Knoll, T.; Gravas, S.; Babjuk, M.; Harding, C.; Breda, A.; Bex, A.; Rassweiler, J. J.; Gozen, A. S.; Pini, G.; Liatsikos, E.; Giannarini, G.; Mottrie, A.; Subramaniam, R.; Sofikitis, N.; Rocco, Bernardo Maria Cesare; Xie, L. -P.; Witjes, J. A.; Mottet, N.; Ljungberg, B.; Roupret, M.; Laguna, M. P.; Salonia, A.; Bonkat, G.; Blok, B. F. M.; Turk, C.; Radmayr, C.; Kitrey, N. D.; Engeler, D. S.; Lumen, N.; Hakenberg, O. W.; Watkin, N.; Hamid, R.; Olsburgh, J.; Darraugh, J.; Shepherd, R.; Smith, E. -J.; Chapple, C. R.; Stenzl, A.; Van Poppel, H.; Wirth, M.; Sonksen, J.; N'Dow, J.

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2020.04.056

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is unlike anything seen before by modern science-based medicine. As a scientific society, the European Association of Urology, via the guidelines, section offices, and the European Urology family of journals, we believe that it is important that we try to support urologists in this difficult situation. We aim to do this by providing tools that can facilitate decision making with the goal to minimise the impact and risks for both patients and health professionals delivering urological care, whenever possible, although it is clear that it is not always possible to mitigate them entirely. We hope that these revised recommendations will fill an important urological practice void and assist urologist surgeons across the globe as they do their very best to deal with the crisis of our generation.

Ribal, M. J., Cornford, P., Briganti, A., Knoll, T., Gravas, S., Babjuk, M., Harding, C., Breda, A., Bex, A., Rassweiler, J. J., Gozen, A. S., Pini, G., Liatsikos, E., Giannarini, G., Mottrie, A., Subramaniam, R., Sofikitis, N., Rocco, B. M. C., Xie, L. -., Witjes, J. A., Mottet, N., Ljungberg, B., Roupret, M., Laguna, M. P., Salonia, A., Bonkat, G., Blok, B. F. M., Turk, C., Radmayr, C., Kitrey, N. D., Engeler, D. S., Lumen, N., Hakenberg, O. W., Watkin, N., Hamid, R., Olsburgh, J., Darraugh, J., Shepherd, R., Smith, E. -., Chapple, C. R., Stenzl, A., Van Poppel, H., Wirth, M., Sonksen, J., N'Dow, J., European Association of Urology Guidelines Office Rapid Reaction Group: An Organisation-wide Collaborative Effort to Adapt the European Association of Urology Guidelines Recommendations to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Era, <<EUROPEAN UROLOGY>>, 2020; 78 (1): 21-28. [doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2020.04.056] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/302190]