The effect of national lockdown due to COVID-19 on emergency department visits

Table 1 Number of emergency department (ED) visits and inpatient admissions in the participating hospitals six weeks before and six weeks after the start of emergency on March 16

	six weeks before		six weeks after
	median	IQR	median	IQR	p
Combined
total n of ED visits	22,069		18,584
total n of inpatient admissions^a (%)	6606	29.9	5620	30.2	0.50
Tampere University Hospital
daily median of ED visits	213	29	155	24	< 0.001
daily median of inpatient admissions	77	15	61	13	< 0.001
Central Finland Hospital
daily median of ED visits	180	43	141	31	< 0.001
daily median of inpatient admissions	44	16	40	15	0.02
Mikkeli Central Hospital
daily median of ED visits	102	20	101	24	0.18
daily median of inpatient admissions	26	8	21	9	< 0.001

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