Table 1.

Characteristics of non-COVID patients admitted to the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital between February 27 and June 7, 2020 (sub-period 1) and between March 17 and April 20, 2020 (sub-period 2), compared with the same sub-periods in 2017–19. SD standard deviation, ICU intensive care unit, APR-DRG all patient refined diagnosis related groups, LOS length of stay; *Chi-Square test; **Student T-test; ***Mann–Whitney U-test.

	Sub-period 1 (first COVID-19 pandemic wave in Seville)			Sub-period 2 (excess mortality in Andalusia)
	2020	2017–19	p value	2020	2017–19	p value
Total admissions, n	10,271	42,112		2900	14,281
Annual admissions, n	10,271	14,037	< 0.001*	2900	4760	< 0.001*
Sex (male), n (%)	4768 (46.4)	19,994 (47.4)	0.083*	1278 (44.1)	6765 (47.4)	0.001**
Age, mean ± SD	50.76 ± 4.9	49 ± 25.22	< 0.001**	50.99 ± 24.60	49.22 ± 25.22	0.001**
Emergency admissions, n (%)	6248 (60.8)	22,884 (54.3)	< 0.001*	1935 (66.7)	8094 (56.7)	< 0.001*
Days of hospitalisation, mean ± SD	7.09 ± 11.09	6.62 ± 10.6	< 0.001***	7.45 ± 12.31	6.67 ± 10.13	< 0.001***
Days of hospitalisation in ICU, mean ± SD	0.67 ± 4.96	0.65 ± 4.37	0.657**	0.67 ± 4.93	0.66 ± 4.23	0.900**
Medical APR DRG, n (%)	6229 (60.6)	23,876 (56.7)	< 0.001**	1852 (63.9)	8269 (57.9)	< 0.001**
Severity level, mean ± SD	1.82 ± 0.84	1.71 ± 0.8	< 0.001***	1.86 ± 0.86	1.72 ± 0.8	< 0.001**
Mortality level, mean ± SD	1.54 ± 0.79	1.45 ± 0.74	< 0.001***	1.58 ± 0.81	1.47 ± 0.75	< 0.001***
APR-DRG weigh, mean ± SD	0.89 ± 1.02	1.17 ± 1.33	< 0.001***	0.89 ± 1.09	1.18 ± 1.39	< 0.001***
APR-DRG-adjusted LOS index, mean ± SD	0.93 ± 0.87	0.94 ± 0.98	0.052***	0.94 ± 1.01	0.94 ± 0.95	0.976***
Deaths at hospital, n (%)	507 (4.94)	552.0 (3.93)	< 0.001**	186 (6.41)	192.3 (4.04)	< 0.001*

Significant values are in bold.