Table 2.
Hospital-acquired infection rates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in percent of all admissions to these wards and units
| Ward | Before COVID 2019 (%) |
During COVID 2020 (%) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CCU | 0.98 | 3.44 | 0.002 |
| Cardiology | 2.60 | 1.46 | 0.046 |
| ICU general | 18.42 | 21.78 | 0.045 |
| ICU emergency | 18.78 | 38.17 | < 0.001 |
| ICU neurology | 4.87 | 8.51 | 0.086 |
| Internal men | 6.29 | 7.00 | 0.636 |
| Internal women | 4.61 | 3.67 | 0.470 |
| Orthodontics(maxillofacial) | 2.45 | 0.93 | 0.171 |
| Kidney transplant | 15.91 | 15.91 | 1.000 |
| Multiple sclerosis | 0.39 | 0.80 | 0.428 |
| Neurology men | 2.65 | 0.96 | 0.019 |
| Neurology women | 6.18 | 3.05 | 0.039 |
| Oncology | 1.89 | 0.84 | 0.129 |
| Orthopedics men | 5.78 | 3.84 | 0.100 |
| Orthopedics women | 4.02 | 3.70 | 0.757 |
| Psychiatry men | 1.08 | 2.25 | 0.102 |
| Psychiatry women | 3.87 | 2.38 | 0.206 |
| Surgery | 2.20 | 2.75 | 0.302 |
| Urology | 0.68 | 0.84 | 0.621 |
| VIP-IPD | 3.19 | 3.23 | 0.988 |
VIP Very Important Person, IPD International Patient Department, CCU coronary care unit, ICU intensive care unit