Does gender influence outcomes in critically ill patients?

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Angele, Martin K ^a   Pratschke, Sebastian ^a   Chaudry, Irshad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID; SEX HORMONE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BURN; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER FAILURE; LYMPHOMA; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGE; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84862198303     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11365     Document Type: Note

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