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) .