Collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic: an alarming decline in critical procedures in otorhinolaryngology in a German university hospital.

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol · 2021 · PMC7736669 · PMID 33320294

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barely not statistically significantp = 0.054so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

When analyzing emergency procedures for acute bleeding and acute inflammatory diseases, we found a downward trend by 51%, although this was barely not statistically significant compared to the 8 weeks before ( p = 0.054).

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