The negative effects of COVID-19 and national lockdown on emergency surgery morbidity due to delayed access.

The adjusted analyses, however, reduced the entity of the differences and eliminated statistical significance (Table 5 ). SARS-CoV-2-positive patients had higher risk for blood transfusion (20% vs 7.8%, p = 0.37) and ICU admission (20% vs 2.6%, p = 0.17) and a higher median LOS (9 days vs 4 days, p = 0.11), although these differences did not reach statistical significance.

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