After adjusting for age and sex, FCHICs had a higher risk of transfer to other hospitals (AOR: 2.21; 95% CI: 1.67-2.92) and less risk of home hospitalization (AOR: 0.37; 95% CI: 0.18-0.79).
Set east of Jerusalem in an area known as E1, Khan al-Ahmar is one of 46 Palestinian communities the UN considers at "high risk of forcible transfer".
Other conditions, such as premature rupture of membrane, caesarean section and operative vaginal delivery, showed a high risk of neonatal transfer also after accounting for the neonatal condition of the baby.
First born babies and fourth or later born babies (RR 1.3; 95% CI: 1.2-1.4 1.2-1.4; 95% CI: 1.0-1.3, respectively) were shown to hand a high risk of being transferred compared with second born babies.
Importantly, such measures may also reduce the high risk of antibiotic resistance transfer from animals to humans (Heuer et al. 2006; Smith et al. 2005).
Although it is likely the most severe cases with a high risk of mortality are transferred, it is important to stress that the observed increase over time in post-transfer deaths for MI does not necessarily imply an increase over time in mortality rates for transferred patients.
In line with previous findings [ 36- 38] we found that overweight and in particular obese mothers had a high risk of having their baby transferred to NCU.
Unfortunately, owing to their underlying disease or treatment or both, these patients are at high risk of severe complications, often requiring transfer to the ICU.
Specific mention was made of the importance of transferring women at high risk of preterm labour to a specialist centre before delivery, so reducing the number of babies requiring acute postnatal transfer.
The considerable number of microbiological analyses done in ICU-C might be justified, as the patients in ICU-C, who included transplant patients, haematological patients at high risk of complications, and patients who were transferred from others hospitals, are more likely to have severe health problems.
