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. 2020 Oct 24;124(12):1333–1339. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.10.006

Table 1.

Average daily number of accesses and admissions to hospital, and average daily percentage of admissions to hospital, by period, year and priority codes. Delta is the difference between 2020 and 2019 means, Std.Err. is the standard error of the difference, and pvalue is computed for the null hypothesis of equality between 2020 and 2019 means vs the bilateral alternative.

Daily accesses
Total
Yellow & Red priority codes
White & Green priority codes
2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. Pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue
Before 209.18 205.73 −3.45 4.80 0.473 74.36 72.73 −1.64 2.73 0.55 134.82 133.00 −1.82 4.55 0.69
Fear week 211.86 144.50 −67.36 3.95 <0.001 70.29 52.88 −17.41 4.13 <0.001 141.57 91.63 −49.95 4.27 <0.001
Pandemic 208.25 115.08 −93.17 3.79 <0.001 70.89 51.56 −19.33 1.58 <0.001 137.37 63.52 −73.84 3.28 <0.001
Phase 2 207.29 135.97 −71.33 3.59 <0.001 69.05 55.84 −13.21 1.87 <0.001 138.24 80.12 −58.12 2.81 <0.001
admitted to hospital
Total
Yellow & Red priority codes
White & Green priority codes
2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. Pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue
Before 54.32 50.27 −4.05 2.54 0.112 39.50 37.95 −1.55 2.20 0.482 14.82 12.32 −2.50 1.11 0.024
Fear week 49.14 42.88 −6.27 3.85 0.104 38.00 30.38 −7.63 2.75 0.006 11.14 12.50 1.36 2.31 0.557
Pandemic 51.54 48.65 −2.89 1.82 0.114 37.78 35.24 −2.54 1.31 0.054 13.76 13.41 −0.35 1.00 0.728
Phase 2 49.24 39.66 −9.59 1.49 <0.001 36.55 30.60 −5.95 1.24 <0.001 12.69 9.05 −3.64 0.73 <0.001
admitted to hospital (%)
Total
Yellow & Red priority codes
White & Green priority codes
2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. Pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue
Before 25.96 24.43 −1.53 1.07 0.154 53.10 51.99 −1.12 2.02 0.581 11.01 9.29 −1.72 0.78 0.028
Fear week 23.19 29.53 6.34 2.05 0.002 54.16 57.59 3.43 3.75 0.36 7.86 13.44 5.58 1.97 0.005
Pandemic 24.82 42.78 17.96 1.31 <0.001 53.42 67.93 14.51 1.51 <0.001 10.06 21.53 11.47 1.21 <0.001
Phase 2 23.75 29.33 5.58 0.82 <0.001 52.93 55.10 2.17 1.42 0.126 9.18 11.38 2.20 0.71 0.002