Comparison between Groups
Table 2 provides a description of the comparison between PANDEMIC-Group
and CONTROL-Group as regards age, gender, patients’ geographic origin,
mean hospitalization time and postoperative stay. No statistically
significant differences were observed when comparing the two Groups
according to these parameters.
The proportion of surgeries performed according to the pathology treated
changed during the two considered periods and a summary is provided in
Table 3. A statistically significant difference in the proportion of
pathologies treated was found between PANDEMIC-Group and CONTROL-Group
(p = .016). When pairwise comparison was performed, the proportion of
patients treated for malignancies was statistically significantly higher
than the ones treated for inflammatory diseases (p = .002). Other
pairwise comparisons between patients treated for other than tumor
pathologies with inflammatory diseases, were not statistically
significant (p > .003).