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Table 1 Characteristics of surgical interventions during the three periods (n = 417,233)

From: The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on perioperative factors: data from the Swedish Perioperative Register

 

Missing

Period 1

Period 2

Period 3

p value

Number of surgeries

 

157,783

113,570

145,880

 

Mean age, year

4

(< 0.00%)

58.1

57.7

58.7

 < 0.001a

Sex, n (%)

1485 (0.36%)

   

0.12b

 Female

 

88,989 (56.5)

63,003 (56.1)

82,041(56.3)

 

 Male

 

68,602(43.5)

49,362 (43.9)

63,751 (43.7)

ASA 1

80,423 (19.3%)

33,856 (25.8)

22,152 (24.4)

27,527 (24.1)

 < 0.001c

ASA 2

61,583 (46.9)

40,887 (44.9)

52,402 (45.8)

ASA 3

32,131 (24.4)

24,364 (26.8)

30,287 (26.5)

ASA 4

3715 (2.8)

3440 (3.8)

4044 (3.5)

ASA 5

101 (0.1)

96 (0.1)

118 (0.1)

ASA 6

40 (0.0)

29 (0.0)

38 (0.0)

Acute surgery, n (%)

331

(<0.1%)

47,080 (29.8)

46,228 (40.7)

50,742 (34.9)

 < 0.001b

Elective surgery, n (%)

110,702 (70.2)

67,333 (59.3)

94,817 (65.1)

Surgery duration, mean, h:min:sec

0

1:11:23

1:14:00

1:12:08

 < 0.001a

  1. Period 1 = pre-pandemic period, March–June 2019; Period 2 = first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, March–June 2020; Period 3 = 1 year into the pandemic, March–June 2021
  2. aOne-way ANOVA
  3. bChi-square
  4. cKruskal–Wallis test