title: Do men perform better than women in trauma?
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.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hernández-Tejedor
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: García-Fuentes
authors.forename: Emilio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Alted-López
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality*