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).