Fig. 6
Admissions by age category: How did the pandemic impact the trend? Predicted number of monthly admissions to the Institute of Legal Medicine categorized by age if the pandemic had never occurred (blue) and if the pandemic had already existed prior to the actual onset (red), analyzed in a Poisson regression using the number of monthly admissions in each category as the dependent variable and the respective month, the pandemic dummy variable and the multiplicative interaction term of both as independent variables. For admissions in the age categories 36 to 59 years (a) and 60 to 74 years (b), a significant impact of the pandemic cannot be distinguished from a general time trend. However, the pandemic had a significant impact on admissions in the age category 85 years and older (c). Increasing the value of the time variable by one standard deviation from its mean increases the number of predicted monthly admissions by 17.6% under the pandemic scenario, while we would have expected a decrease by 8.0% under a non-pandemic scenario.
