Does gender influence outcomes in critically ill patients?
Investigators continue to debate whether gender plays any role in patient outcome following injury/critical illness. We submit that age and hormonal milieu at the time of injury, rather than gender, are the critical factors influencing patient outcome under those conditions.
Martin K
MK
Angele
Sebastian
S
Pratschke
Irshad H
IH
Chaudry
D000367:Age Factors; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012737:Sex Factors
D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones