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. 2023 Mar 27;13:4977. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32317-w

Table 1.

Estimated change of number and rate for breast cancer surgery during COVID-19 pandemic.

Time Estimated change of number1 Estimated change of rate2 p-value
Number 95% CI % 95% CI
Total Apr-2020 689 − 499 1877 9 − 7 26 0.256
Jul-2020 − 657 − 1947 634 − 9 − 27 9 0.319
Oct-2020 − 79 − 1385 1227 − 1 − 20 17 0.906
Jan-2021 539 − 770 1849 8 − 11 26 0.420
BCS without ALND Apr-2020 97 − 188 381 3 − 6 12 0.506
Jul-2020 − 846 − 1190 − 502 − 28 − 39 − 16  < 0.001
Oct-2020 − 540 − 861 − 218 − 17 − 27 − 7 0.001
Jan-2021 8 − 384 401 0 − 13 14 0.967
Mastectomy without ALND Apr-2020 134 − 438 707 5 − 18 28 0.645
Jul-2020 − 136 − 771 500 − 5 − 31 20 0.676
Oct-2020 124 − 568 817 5 − 23 33 0.725
Jan-2021 154 − 591 900 6 − 24 36 0.685
BCS with ALND Apr-2020 − 42 − 289 205 − 8 − 55 39 0.741
Jul-2020 − 112 − 389 166 − 21 − 75 32 0.431
Oct-2020 − 182 − 487 124 − 35 − 93 24 0.244
Jan-2021 38 − 292 369 7 − 56 71 0.820
Mastectomy with ALND Apr-2020 147 − 138 431 9 − 9 27 0.312
Jul-2020 − 1 − 339 337 0 − 22 22 0.995
Oct-2020 − 61 − 399 277 − 4 − 26 18 0.723
Jan-2021 9 − 329 347 1 − 21 22 0.959

ALND axillary lymph node dissection, BCS breast-conserving surgery, CI confidence interval.

1Estimated change of number represents the change during the COVID-19 pandemic under the control of underlying trends, autocorrelation, moving average, and seasonality.

2Estimated change of rate was calculated by dividing the estimated change of number by the predicted number in the absence of the pandemic (counterfactual number).