Table 1.
Changes in the screening policies and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) from pandemic 2020 to 2021
| Query | Options | Study period: pandemic 2020 N = 701 |
Study period: 2021 N = 476 |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital changes in relation to COVID-19 pandemic | My hospital does not treat COVID-19 patients | 8.1% (57) | 8.0% (38) | 0.27 |
| My hospital has restricted areas dedicated to COVID-19 patients | 83.0% (582) | 85.7% (408) | ||
| My hospital is exclusively dedicated to COVID-19 patients | 8.8% (62) | 6.3% (30) | ||
| Screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with appendicitis during the pandemic | No | 11.6% (81) | 2.3% (11) | < 0.001 |
| Only patients with respiratory symptoms or suspect of SARS-CoV-2 infection | 50.9% (357) | 8.2% (39) | ||
| Yes, all patients | 37.4% (262) | 89.5% (426) | ||
| Methods of screening | Chest CT scan with PCR and or serology | 38.8% (252) | 7.1% (34) | < 0.001 |
| Chest X-ray with PCR and or serology | 33.3% (216) | 14.1% (67) | ||
| No screening | 0.0% (0) | 1.1% (5) | ||
| PCR or antigenic test | 26.3% (171) | 74.1% (353) | ||
| Serology | 1.3% (9) | 3.6% (17) |
Bold numbers refers to significant values (when p<0.05)