COVID-19’s Influence on Ocular Emergency Visits at a Tertiary Referral Center and Its Relationship to Emergency Indications by the American Academy of Ophthalmology

Table 2

Characteristics of the OER admissions and the outcome of each admission.

	2019 (n = 1069)	2020 (n = 553)	value
Pupillary dilation in the ER	867 (81.1%)	412 (74.5%)	0.002
Time in the ER (minutes, average ± SD)	109 ± 74	73 ± 51	<0.0001
Hospitalization needed	56 (5.2%)	39 (7.1%)	ns
Emergency procedure needed	147 (13.8%)	117 (21.2%)	0.0001

^∗ns: nonsignificant. ER: emergency room.