Table 1 Changes in the number of admissions in different place of death categories before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on admissions of deceased to an institute of legal medicine in Germany

Place of death category

Status in pandemic

Fold change

P-value

Residential address

Over-represented***

1.039

 < 0.001

Retirement/care facility

Over-represented***

1.081

 < 0.001

University medical center (internal)

Under-represented***

0.918

 < 0.001

Other hospital (external)

Under-represented

0.981

0.089

Public

Under-represented**

0.940

0.003

Foreign country

Under-represented

0.946

0.288

Detention

Over-represented

1.104

0.277

Ambulance

Over-represented

1.137

0.055

Shelters (Homeless, Refugee)

Under-represented

0.936

0.177

NA

Over-represented

1.028

0.126

  1. Parameters to calculate the p-value for under- or over-representation are based on the cumulative distribution function of the hypergeometric distribution. Fold change as compared to expected value. Missing values are marked as NA (not available). Significant results in bold; *** p ≤ 0.001, ** p ≤ 0.01.
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