Table 4.

Association of number of respondents who send patients with severe comorbidities to the ICU after bariatric surgery with hospital type and hospital size

Factors	Surgeons who send patients with severe comorbidities to the ICU (%*) (n = 67, 39.6%)	Odds ratio (%95 CI)	P
Hospital type
Academic/tertiary	21 (40.4)	1.05 (0.54–2.04)	1.000
Community/local district	10 (24.4)	0.40 (0.18–0.89)	0.027
Private clinic	36 (47.4)	1.80 (0.97–3.36)	0.082
Hospital size (number of hospital beds)
< 100	8 (38.1)	0.93 (0.36–2.38)	1.000
100–200	18 (43.9)	1.26 (0.62–2.57)	0.584
201–500	24 (45.3)	1.41 (0.73–2.72)	0.316
501–1000	13 (32.5)	0.67 (0.32–1.41)	0.356
> 1000	4 (28.6)	0.58 (0.18–1.95)	0.570

ICU intensive care unit

^*The percentages refer to the total of surgeons who work in the same hospital type or in hospitals with the same size

%95 CI 95% confidence intervals