Focusing a gender lens on emergency medicine research: 2012 update

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 313-320

  Mcgregor, Alyson J ^a   Greenberg, Marna ^b   Safdar, Basmah ^c   Seigel, Todd ^a   Hendrickson, Robert ^d   Poznanski, Stacey ^e   Davenport, Moira ^f   Miner, James ^g   Choo, Esther K ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN REGULATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG ABUSE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FALLING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MICROANGIOPATHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TORSADE DES POINTES; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MALE; PATIENT CARE; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SEX FACTORS; SEXISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875302580     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12085     Document Type: Article

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