TABLE 1.
Comparison of organ transplantation by the type of institution between pre-COVID and COVID-era
| Organa | Public institutions n = 102 |
Private institutions |
p-value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
n = 162 | |||||||
| Pre-COVID | COVID-era | Reduction (%) | Pre-COVID | COVID-era | Reduction (%) | ||
| Kidney | 2387 | 251 | –89% | 639 | 274 | –57% | <.001 |
| Cornea | 2063 | 250 | –88% | 1780 | 636 | –64% | <.001 |
| Liver | 164 | 17 | –90% | 68 | 24 | –35% | <.001 |
| Heart | 32 | 4 | –88% | 3 | 1 | –67% | .4 |
| Global | 4646 | 522 | –89% | 2490 | 935 | –62%a | <.001 |
Pre-COVID: March 2019 to February 2020; COVID-era: March 2020 to February 2021.
a
The number for each organ represents the total number of transplanted patients during a specific era.
*
p-value obtained with a chi-square test for independence.