Effect of hospital choice on patients’ outcomes
Logistic regression was performed to test whether the hospital choice
has an effect on the patients’ outcomes or not. This was tested using
Hospital A as a reference and doing the test for choosing Hospital B.
Accordingly, there was a reduction in all outcomes in Hospital B when
compared to Hospital A. Length of hospitalization(OR= 0.93; 95% CI=
0.83-1.03), time from admission to ICU (OR= 0.95; 95% CI= 0.68-1.32),
time from admission to ventilation (OR= 0.99; 95% CI= 0.79-1.25), time
from ICU admission to death (OR= 0.94; 95% CI= 0.84-1.05), and time
from ventilation to death (OR= 0.94; 95% CI= 0.84-1.06). These
reductions were not statistically significant (Table 7) .