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Comment
. 2014 Feb 27;18(1):114.
doi: 10.1186/cc13748.

Do men perform better than women in trauma?

Alberto Hernández-Tejedor, Carlos García-Fuentes, Emilio Alted-López
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Do men perform better than women in trauma?

Alberto Hernández-Tejedor et al. Crit Care. .

Abstract

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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