Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 308-315 , August 2009

Females have fewer complications and lower mortality following trauma than similarly injured males: A risk adjusted analysis of adults in the National Trauma Data Bank

  • Adil H. Haider, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Adil H. Haider, MD, MPH, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Halsted 610, Baltimore, MD 21287.
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  • Joseph G. Crompton, MD

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • Tolulope Oyetunji, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC
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  • Kent A. Stevens, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • David T. Efron, MD

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • Alicia N. Kieninger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • David C. Chang, MPH, MBA, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • Edward E. Cornwell III, MD

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC
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  • Elliott R. Haut, MD

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Outcomes Research Group—Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

,Accepted 8 May 2009.

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 Presented as an oral presentation at the Academic Surgical Congress during the proceedings of the Society of University Surgeons on February 4, 2009.

 Supported by New Faculty Academic Support Fund (A.H.H.) and the Deans Medical Research Stipend Award (J.G.C.), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00309-2

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.05.006

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 308-315 , August 2009

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