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Table 2 The risk of death at 90 days

From: The mortality of critically ill patients was not associated with inter-hospital transfer due to a shortage of ICU beds - a single-centre retrospective analysis

  Unadjusted Adjusteda
OR 95% CI for OR p value OR 95% CI for OR p value
Transferred vs non-transferred patients 1.33 1.11–1.56 0.002 0.923 0.75–1.14 0.461
  1. aComparison of the risk of death at 90 days after ICU admission between patients transferred due to a shortage of ICU beds and non-transferred patients. There was no difference after adjustment for age, SAPS 3 score, mean NEMS, acute surgery, and ICU diagnosis of cardiac arrest and asphyxia, cerebrovascular event except for SAH, intoxication, transplantation, traumatic brain injury, COPD/asthma, cardiac disease except for cardiac arrest, SAH, pancreatitis/cholangitis, aortic rupture or dissection, gastrointestinal bleeding, acute abdomen except gastrointestinal bleeding, and respiratory tract infection
  2. OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, ICU intensive care unit
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