Applying the gender lens to emergency care: From bench to bedside

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1325-1328

  Safdar, Basmah ^a   Greenberg, Marna R ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; EVOLUTION; GENDER; GENDER MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MEDICINE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919907137     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12521     Document Type: Article

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