Do men perform better than women in trauma?

In recent decades, numerous studies have compared survival according to gender of patients admitted to general hospitals and particularly to intensive care units. In a previous issue of Critical Care, Schoeneberg and colleagues presented the results of a German observational study on a sample from a...

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Autores principales: Hernández-Tejedor, Alberto, García-Fuentes, Carlos, Alted-López, Emilio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24602204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc13748
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author Hernández-Tejedor, Alberto
García-Fuentes, Carlos
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description In recent decades, numerous studies have compared survival according to gender of patients admitted to general hospitals and particularly to intensive care units. In a previous issue of Critical Care, Schoeneberg and colleagues presented the results of a German observational study on a sample from a 10 year registry in a Level 1 trauma center. The conclusion is that there is a trend towards a higher mortality in women than in men.
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spelling pubmed-40151252015-02-27 Do men perform better than women in trauma? Hernández-Tejedor, Alberto García-Fuentes, Carlos Alted-López, Emilio Crit Care Commentary In recent decades, numerous studies have compared survival according to gender of patients admitted to general hospitals and particularly to intensive care units. In a previous issue of Critical Care, Schoeneberg and colleagues presented the results of a German observational study on a sample from a 10 year registry in a Level 1 trauma center. The conclusion is that there is a trend towards a higher mortality in women than in men. BioMed Central 2014 2014-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4015125/ /pubmed/24602204 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc13748 Text en Copyright © 2014 Hernández-Tejedor et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The licensee has exclusive rights to distribute this article, in any medium, for 12 months following its publication. After this time, the article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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