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Table 2 Department involved patient’s management and trauma team activation

From: Outcomes improvement despite continuous visits of severely injured patients during the COVID-19 outbreak: experience at a regional trauma centre in South Korea

 

COVID-19 era (n = 3770)

Pre-COVID-19 (n = 4960)

p-value

Department of admission

  

 < 0.001

  OS

1108 (31.2)

1496 (33.5)

 

  NS

1007 (28.4)

1237 (27.7)

 

  GS

628 (17.7)

976 (21.9)

 

  CS

435 (12.3)

452 (10.1)

 

  EM

103 (2.9)

107 (2.4)

 

  Another department

269 (7.6)

198 (4.4)

 

  Total

3550

4466

 

Department performed operation

  

0.107

  GS

187 (39.3)

216 (37.2)

 

  NS

163 (34.2)

197 (33.9)

 

  OS

86 (18.1)

127 (21.9)

 

  CS

11 (2.3)

21 (3.6)

 

  Another department

29 (6.1)

20 (3.4)

 

  Total

476

581

 

Trauma team activation

1952 (51.8)

2709 (54.6)

0.009

  1. OS orthopaedic surgery, NS neurosurgery, GS general surgery, CS chest surgery, EM emergency medicine