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. 2023 Nov 25;408(1):447. doi: 10.1007/s00423-023-03184-w

Table 3.

Admissions and procedures

Reference to lockdown 1: Years 2012 – 2019 Lockdown 1: April 2020 through June 2020 Change P
Average no of patients / month per 100,000 people 8.67 (8.46-8.89) 7.42 (3.74-11.1)

-14.4%

Corrected: -24.4%

0.004
Mortality / month per 100,000 people 0.123 (0.12-0.13) 0.123 (0.08-0.17)

-0.0%

Corrected: +14.3%

1.0
Ostomy / month per 100,000 people 0.64 (0.63-0.65) 0.60 (0.37-0.83)

-6.2%

Corrected: -7.2%

0.114
Operative/interventional procedure / month per 100,000 people 2.74 (2.61-2.86) 2.11 (0.99-3.23)

-23.0%

Corrected: -12.7%

0.003
Mortality in case of Operative/interventional procedure / month per 100,000 people 0.098 (0.09-0.10) 0.101 (0.06-0.14)

+3.1%

Corrected: +17.6%

0.733
Emergency admissions / month per 100,000 people 4.94 (4.68-5.21) 4.80 (2.77-6.83)

-2.8%

Corrected: -18.6%

0.708
Operative/interventional procedure in case of emergency admissions / month per 100,000 people 1.12 (1.09-1.15) 1.04 (0.80-1.28)

-7.1%

Corrected: -4.3%

0.053
Ostomy after emergency admission / month per 100,000 people 0.384 (0.37-0.40) 0.403 (0.29-0.52)

+4.9%

Corrected: -5.8%

0.346
Revision surgery or ostomy after emergency admission * (%) 12.4% (11.6%-13.2%) 13.1% (7.4%-22.4%) +5.6% 0.219
Non-emergency admissions / month per 100,000 people 3.73 (3.59-3.86) 2.62 (0.97-4.28)

-29.8%

Corrected: -21.6%

<0.001
Operative/interventional procedure in case of non-emergency admissions / month per 100,000 people 1.61 (1.51-1.72) 1.08 (0.19-1.96)

-32.9%

Corrected: -19.4%

0.003
Ostomy after non-emergency admission / month per 100,000 people 0.253 (0.24-0.27) 0.196 (0.08-0.32)

-22.5%

Corrected: -11.3%

0.006
Revision surgery or ostomy after non-emergency admission * (%) 8.0% (7.1%-9.0%) 8.6% (1.3%-82.5%) +7,5% 0.144

Numbers and rates with change during periods of interest (lockdown 1). "People" represent total number of people in Germany in the respective year. p values stem from student's t-test and refer to observed rates, not corrected rates. Numbers in () represent 95% Confidence Interval. Reference always refers to the same months in the respective years. * Complicated cases were defined as any procedure including ostomy or the need for revision surgery. Absolute numbers in Supp. Table 2. Corrected values were calculated on the basis of the average annual change between 2012 and 2019. This average annual change was applied to the value of respective months of 2019 to evaluate an estimate for 2020 in assumption of a linear trend. This estimation was compared to the observed rate resulting in a corrected change. In case of mortality and ostomy, due to lower absolute numbers, three decimals are provided to avoid rounding bias