Table III.
Mean number of orthopaedic referrals per day for three periods encompassing different social distancing measures: COVID aware (5 to 16 March); formal social distancing (17 to 23 March); and lockdown (24 March to 13 April).
| Setting | COVID-19 aware (5/03 to 16/03) |
Social distancing (17/03 to 23/03) |
Lockdown (24/03 to 13/04) |
p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 95% CI | Mean | 95% CI | Mean | 95% CI | ||
| All trauma referrals | 41.0 | 36.0 to 46.6 | 22.7 | 18.6 to 26.25 | 19.29 | 16.44 to 22-19 | < 0.001* |
| Outpatient TTC | 32.4 | 28.1 to 37.7 | 17.1 | 14.0 to 20.0 | 13.6 | 11.1 to 15.9 | < 0.001* |
| Hospital admissions | |||||||
| All admissions | 8.58 | 6.94 to 10.1 | 5.57 | 3.67 to 7.50 | 5.67 | 4.61 to 6.71 | 0.020* |
| Operative admissions | 5.67 | 4.43 to 6.87 | 4.29 | 2.60 to 6.17 | 3.86 | 3.00 to 4.76 | 0.109* |
| Non-operative admissions | 2.92 | 2.15 to 3.67 | 1.29 | 0.33 to 2.83 | 1.81 | 1.33 to 2.32 | 0.013* |
| Fragility factures | 5.42 | 4.18 to 6.67 | 3.57 | 2.75 to 4.43 | 3.76 | 3.1 to 4.45 | 0.065* |
| Femoral fragility fractures | 3.42 | 2.5 to 4.29 | 2.43 | 1.0 to 4.0 | 2.33 | 1.77 to 2.9 | 0.169* |
| Non-fragility fractures | 3.17 | 2.0 to 4.3 | 2.0 | 0.75 to 3.25 | 1.9 | 1.20 to 2.56 | 0.194* |
TTC, trauma triage clinic (new outpatient trauma referrals).
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Kruskal Wallis