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Reassessing access to intensive care using an estimate of the population incidence of critical illness

BACKGROUND: The consistently observed male predominance of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) has raised concerns about gender-based disparities in ICU access. Comparing rates of ICU admission requires choosing a normalizing factor (denominator), and the denominator usually used to compare such...

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Autores principales: Garland, Allan, Olafson, Kendiss, Ramsey, Clare D., Yogendranc, Marina, Fransoo, Randall
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6100704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30122152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-018-2132-8