Table 4.

Percent efficiency changes.

Specialty	Pre-pandemic	Post-pandemic
Cardiovascular surgery	+1.4 ± 8.4	+5.0 ± 4.3
Emergency surgery	+8.8 ± 5.7	+1.5 ± 9.0
General surgery	−6.8 ± 13.1	+4.9 ± 12.6
Neurosurgery	+3.6 ± 5.6	+5.0 ± 8.1
Obstetrics and gynecology	+8.2 ± 4.2	−5.2 ± 7.2
Orthopedics	−0.2 ± 12.3	+7.1 ± 8.9
Otolaryngology	+23.2 ± 8.8*	+10.7 ± 17.3
Plastic surgery	+26.1 ± 18.5	−25.7 ± 21.3
Thoracic surgery	−19.3 ± 8.0*	+3.9 ± 12.0
Urology	+17.3 ± 10.2	−9.5 ± 9.3
All surgical procedures	+6.2 ± 3.3	−0.2 ± 3.8

The values are expressed as mean ± SE.

^*Indicates that the value is significantly different from 0 (p < 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference between “pre-pandemic” and “post-pandemic.”