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

Table 2 The risk of death at 90 days

	Unadjusted			Adjusted^a
	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

^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
OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, ICU intensive care unit

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