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Table 5 Treatment per diagnosis per year (most common diagnoses)

From: Emergency surgery admissions and the COVID-19 pandemic: did the first wave really change our practice? Results of an ACOI/WSES international retrospective cohort audit on 6263 patients

 

Treatment

2019

2020

Acute pancreatitis

Medical

132 (75.9%)

96 (79.3%)

0.48247

Surgical

27 (15.5%)

19 (15.7%)

Interventional

15 (8.6%)

6 (5.0%)

Hot gallbladder

Medical

202 (28.8%)

136 (30.6%)

0.81865

Surgical

401 (57.2%)

248 (55.7%)

Interventional

98 (14.0%)

61 (13.7%)

Acute appendicitis

Medical

53 (8.5%)

32 (8.8%)

0.97813

Surgical

567 (91.2%)

329 (90.9%)

Interventional

2 (0.3%)

1 (0.3%)

Diverticulitis

Medical

159 (59.3%)

73 (54.1%)

0.49189

Surgical

99 (36.9%)

58 (43.0%)

Interventional

10 (3.7%)

4 (3.0%)

Small bowel obstruction

Medical

131 (34.6%)

103 (44.4%)

0.02324

Surgical

241 (63.6%)

128 (55.2%)

Interventional

7 (1.8%)

2 (0.5%)

Complicated colorectal cancer

Medical

12 (7.8%)

8 (7.0%)

0.04585

Surgical

131 (85.1%)

105 (92.1%)

Interventional

11 (7.1%)

1 (0.9%)

  1. §: in bold p < 0.05