Table 2.

Proportion of Transfer by Select Facility Characteristic, Capability, and Protocol Component

Facility Characteristic, Capability, and Protocol Component	CAH Facilities Only		Non-CAH Facilitiesa
	uOR	95% CI	uOR	95% CI
On-Site Physician	1.19	0.94–1.53
ICU Level 2	1.44	1.27–1.63	0.35	0.21–0.59
ICU Level 2 Modified	0.98	0.69–1.39	0.34	0.19–0.59
ICU Level 3	0.92	0.70–1.20	0.26	0.12–0.57
Infectious Disease Specialist Accessible 24 hrs	0.94	0.83–1.06	0.30	0.19–0.47
Family Medicine Specialist Accessible 24 hrs	0.60	0.49–0.74	0.54	0.15–1.92
Dedicated Critical Care Physicians	0.90	0.60–1.35	0.38	0.22–0.64
Critical Care Physicians Accessible 24 hrs	0.88	0.67–1.14	0.34	0.19–0.59
Telemedicine Services - Critical Care	0.73	0.56–0.96	1.15	0.53–2.48
Telemedicine Services - Emergency Medicine	0.91	0.70–1.18	1.94	1.41–2.65
Pharmacist Onsite 24/7 vs none	1.34	1.04–1.71	0.52	0.29–0.91
Pharmacist On-Call/Tele-Pharmacy vs none.	0.92	0.69–1.21	1.74	0.91–3.32
Managing Patienton Mechanical Ventilator (>24 hrs)	0.97	0.76–1.22	0.16	0.12–0.21
Performed within Past Month	1.26	1.00–1.59	0.49	0.24–1.04
Administering Vasopressor Therapy (>24 hrs)	0.88	0.69–1.13
Performed within Past Month	1.31	0.93–1.83	0.35	0.17–0.74
Performing Hemodialysis	1.34	1.14–1.57	0.38	0.22–0.66
Placing Central Lines	0.72	0.58–0.88
Performed within Past Month	1.14	0.91–1.44	0.78	0.37–1.68
Placed by Intensivist	1.44	1.27–1.63	0.39	0.20–0.60
Placed by Emergency Physician	0.94	0.72–1.23	0.69	0.37–1.27
Placed by Generalist	0.95	0.70–1.29	1.21	0.64–2.31
Placed byAdvanced Practice Provider	0.90	0.60–1.34	0.77	0.36–1.64
Placed by Surgeon	0.65	0.52–0.81	1.67	0.91–3.43
Use of Continuous Capnography while Monitoring Intubated Patients	1.22	1.07–1.39	1.07	0.60–1.93
Use of Capnography During Procedural Sedation in the ED	0.91	0.72–1.15	0.68	0.42–1.09
Standardized Criteria Writtenor Unwritten in Place for Transferring Patients with Sepsis	0.97	0.76–1.23	1.02	0.52–1.99
Specific Arrangements for Transferring Patients with Sepsis to a Specific Hospital for Further Care	0.95	0.68–1.33	1.03	0.33–3.20

^aBlack boxes indicate capabilities where all facilities had access;as a result, we could not model transfer as an outcome based on capability.