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Examining mechanisms for gender differences in admission to intensive care units.
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- Differences in admission to trauma centres by sex among adults with traumatic brain injury: a population-based cohort study.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2026Article
- Gender-Based Differences in COPD Patients with Type 2 Respiratory Failure-Impact on Clinical Practice.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Observational
- Acute kidney injury, the present on admission (POA) indicator and sex disparities: observational study of inpatient real-world data in a Swiss tertiary healthcare system. Explorative analysis.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Triage of Critically Ill Patients: Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Refused as Too Well for Intensive Care.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Sex-related differences in adult patients with status epilepticus: a seven-year two-center observation.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Article
- Sociodemographic and Geographic Disparities in End-of-Life Health Care Intensity Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Parkinson Disease.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2023Article
- Ableism in the intensive care unit.Intensive care medicine · 2023Article
- Sex-Related Differences in Acuity and Postoperative Complications, Mortality and Failure to Rescue.The Journal of surgical research · 2023Article
- Gender differences in the provision of intensive care: a Bayesian approach.Intensive care medicine · 2021Article
- Examining mechanisms for gender differences in admission to intensive care units.Health services research · 2020Observational
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate whether the male predominance of older people admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) is due to gender differences in the presence of spouses, partners, or children; rates of gender-specific disease; or triage decisions made by health system personnel. DATA SOURCES AND COLLECTION: Three population-based datasets, 2004-2012, of Canadians ≥65 years: provincial health care data from Manitoba (n = 250 190) and national data of nursing home residents (n = 133 982) and community-based homecare recipients (n = 210 090). STUDY
designRetrospective observational study, using multivariable Cox proportional hazards and logistic regression. PRINCIPAL
findingsMales predominated in ICU admissions: from Manitoba (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.87, 95% CI = 1.80-1.95), nursing homes (HR = 1.47, 1.35-1.60), and homecare (odds ratio = 1.14, 1.11-1.17). Adjustment for spouses, partners, and children did not attenuate this effect. The HR for gender was lower by 13.5 percent, relative, after excluding ICU care for cardiac causes. Male predominance was not present during a second ICU admission among survivors of a first ICU-containing hospitalization (HR = 1.07, 0.96-1.20).
conclusionsIn three older cohorts, the male predominance of ICU admission was not explained by gender differences in the presence of a spouse, partner, or children, or cardiac disease rates. The third finding suggests that triage bias is unlikely to be responsible for the male predominance.
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