Table 3.

Emergency calls coded “green” (non-critical), “yellow” (fairly critical), and “red” (very critical) for alcohol-related issues for patients pharmacologically treated who ended in the emergency department or not in 2-year periods (2018–2019, pre-COVID-19 period; 2020–2021, COVID-19 period).

Triage	ED Group		NED Group
	2018–2019	2020–2021	2018–2019	2020–2021
green	289	84 ^	397	243 §
yellow	278	136 ^	20	25
red	37	41	0	1

^ p < 0.05, ED group _2018–2019 vs. ED group _2020–2021. § p < 0.05, NED group _2018–2019 vs. NED group _2020–2021.