Table 1.
Characteristics of Participating Centers and Procedure Numbers
| Asian Region |
Worldwide |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern | South-Eastern | Southern | Western and Central | P Value | Asia | RoW | P Value | |
| Number of centers | 81 | 36 | 38 | 25 | 180 | 729 | ||
| Number of countries | 4 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 33 | 75 | ||
| Number of procedures | ||||||||
| March 2019 | 130,909 | 19,250 | 29,488 | 12,556 | 192,203 | 486,435 | ||
| March 2020 | 69,034 | 13,140 | 12,418 | 6,500 | 101,092 | 293,533 | ||
| April 2020 | 88,170 | 7,567 | 3,013 | 3,553 | 102,303 | 142,133 | ||
| Procedures per center | ||||||||
| March 2019 | 632 (219-1,233) | 120 (19-795) | 190 (73-810) | 252 (115-507) | <0.01 | 367 (93-1,067) | 248 (78-812) | 0.09 |
| March 2020 | 472 (150-935) | 41 (11-418) | 122 (52-390) | 93 (26-233) | <0.01 | 188 (52-764) | 126 (41-451) | 0.03 |
| April 2020 | 578 (227-1,055) | 29 (1-81) | 38 (0-173) | 29 (2-118) | <0.01 | 139 (10-571) | 57 (13-232) | <0.01 |
| Hospital beds | 914 (613-2,500) | 673 (250-1,000) | 350 (200-924) | 600 (400-950) | <0.01 | 751 (350-1,368) | 460 (200-800) | <0.01 |
| Inpatient center | 80 (99) | 33 (92) | 34 (89) | 25 (100) | 0.04 | 172 (96) | 567 (78) | <0.01 |
| Teaching institution | 62 (77) | 26 (72) | 20 (53) | 21 (84) | 0.03 | 129 (72) | 468 (64) | 0.04 |
| Economic level by center | ||||||||
| Low | — | — | 2 (5) | — | <0.01 | 2 (1) | 2 (0.3) | <0.01 |
| Lower-middle | 1 (1) | 28 (78) | 28 (74) | 1 (4) | 58 (32) | 28 (4) | ||
| Upper-middle | 30 (37) | 3 (8) | 8 (21) | 5 (20) | 46 (26) | 236 (32) | ||
| Upper | 50 (62) | 5 (14) | — | 19 (76) | 74 (41) | 463 (64) | ||
Values are n, median (interquartile range), or n (%). Procedure counts are for centers performing testing in March 2019.
RoW = rest of world.