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.
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Daily accesses | ||||||||||
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| Chest Pain |
Abdominal pain |
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| 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 |
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of which admitted to hospital |
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| Chest Pain |
Abominala pain |
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| 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 |
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of which admitted to hospital (%) |
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| Chest Pain |
Abdominal pain |
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| 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 |