… the 2 groups related to disease and patient condition, we hypothesized that outcome
differences would persist even after adjusting for patient factors such as demographics, disease-…

… patient characteristics, there remains the possibility of unmeasured confounding and other
bias that account for our results, … data demonstrating an effect on patient outcomes, 10 we did …

… . Interhospital transfer patients discharged by academic hospitalists and general internists:
Characteristics and outcomes. J Hosp Med 2016;11:245–50.doi:10.1002/jhm.2515 …

… that the majority of transfer patients died before or during transfer to a higher level center
for definitive care. In the absence of data on mortality outcomes for patients remaining at the …

… results suggest that transfer patients have inferior outcomes compared with nontransfer
patients… the understudied population of transfer patients, we compared patient demographics and …

… differences in transfer rates between hospitals. We then added patient characteristics to see
if the … by differences in patient characteristics between hospitals. Lastly, we added hospital …

… according to the type of transfer. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics
of patients and transport used for the three interhospital transport categories. We explored …

… hospital characteristics (eg, size, resources, EGS volume, and outcomes) and transfer …
in a successful regionalized network, interhospital transfers of patients with EGS conditions …

… of patients that did and did not undergo interhospital transfer. We obtained patient
sociodemographic and clinical variables and categorized hospitals into subtypes on the basis of …

… of our study was that outcomes for ICU transfer patients were not worse than outcomes of
patients admitted from the general wards, and, in fact, transfer patients were less likely to die in …