Table 2.
Comparison of patient age and age-appropriateness for palatoplasty procedures in the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 eras
| Variable | Palatoplasty |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-COVID-19 era (n = 160) | COVID-19 era (n = 139) | ||
| Age group | 0.509 | ||
| > 6 mo–1 yr | 6 (3.8) | 7 (5.0) | |
| > 1–2 yr | 99 (61.9) | 98 (70.5) | |
| > 2–5 yr | 37 (23.1) | 15 (10.8) | |
| > 5–10 yr | 10 (6.3) | 7 (5.0) | |
| > 10–18 yr | 5 (3.1) | 9 (6.5) | |
| > 18 yr | 3 (1.9) | 3 (2.2) | |
| Age-appropriateness | 0.323 | ||
| 6 mo–2 yr | 105 (65.6) | 105 (75.5) | |
| > 2 yr | 55 (34.4) | 34 (24.5) | |
COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.