Mortality in adolescent girls vs boys following traumatic shock: An analysis of the national pediatric trauma registry

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 875-879

  Haider, Adil H ^a   Efron, David T ^a   Haut, Elliott R ^a   Chang, David C ^a   Paidas, Charles N ^b   Cornwell III, Edward E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIANDROGEN; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; FLUTAMIDE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAUMATIC SHOCK;

ADOLESCENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SHOCK, TRAUMATIC; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548720539     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.9.875     Document Type: Article

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