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. 2020 Sep 14;72(4):1263–1271. doi: 10.1007/s13304-020-00884-6

Table 3.

SSI stratification by type of surgery setting

	Elective setting (n = 392)			Urgent/emergent setting (n = 149)			p value
	Superficial SSI	Deep SSI	Organ-space SSI	Superficial SSI	Deep SSI	Organ-space SSI	p value
SARS-CoV-2 era	0%** (0/95)	0%** (0/95)	2.1% (2/95)	3.6%** (1/28)	0%** (0/28)	0%** (0/28)	> 0.05
Pre-SARS-CoV-2 era	3.7%* (11/297)	2.4%^† (7/297)	2.7%^† (8/297)	9.1%* (11/121)	5.8%^† (7/121)	5.8%^† (7/121)	*0.045 ^†0.05
	p = 0.045	p = 0.05	p = 0.232	p = 0.05	p = 0.02	p = 0.02

Values are % (number of cases/total population)

**Statistically significant difference between SSIs index before and during COVID-19 era

*^,†Statistically significant difference between elective vs. urgent/emergent setting. For the other abbreviations, see Table 1