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

Table 2.

Average daily number of accesses and admissions to hospital, and average daily percentage of admissions to hospital, for chest and abdominal pain symptoms, by period and year. 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
Chest Pain
Abdominal pain
2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue
Before 10.41 10.77 0.36 1.02 0.721 16.23 13.23 −3.00 1.04 0.004
Fear week 10.14 6.88 −3.27 1.08 0.003 16.29 11.00 −5.29 1.40 <0.001
Pandemic 11.38 4.46 −6.92 0.60 <0.001 14.90 4.44 −10.46 0.69 <0.001
Phase 2 9.10 6.53 −2.57 0.58 <0.001 15.36 9.88 −5.48 0.82 <0.001
of which admitted to hospital
Chest Pain
Abominala pain
2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue
Before 3.32 3.05 −0.27 0.57 0.636 6.50 4.95 −1.55 0.68 0.025
Fear week 2.86 2.25 −0.61 0.71 0.391 5.14 5.25 0.11 1.03 0.917
Pandemic 3.84 1.84 −2.00 0.33 <0.001 6.17 2.27 −3.90 0.42 <0.001
Phase 2 3.12 2.21 −0.91 0.31 <0.001 6.17 3.98 −2.19 0.45 <0.001
of which admitted to hospital (%)
Chest Pain
Abdominal pain
2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue 2019 2020 Delta Std.Err. pvalue
Before 32.08 26.26 −5.82 4.48 0.195 39.41 37.83 −1.58 3.50 0.652
Fear week 27.69 27.65 −0.04 6.70 0.995 30.30 48.67 18.38 5.67 0.001
Pandemic 34.44 42.57 8.13 4.37 0.064 41.31 51.74 10.43 4.06 0.011
Phase 2 33.61 34.90 1.29 3.49 0.711 40.59 41.37 0.78 3.01 0.795