Propensity-Score Analysis Reveals that Sex is Not a Prognostic Factor for Mortality in Intensive Care Unit-Admitted Patients with Septic Bacteremia

ABSTRACT: Objective: Men have been considered to have a higher incidence of infectious diseases, with controversy over the possibility that sex could influence the prognosis of the infection. This study aimed to explore this assumption in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with sept...

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Main Authors: Manuel Ponce-Alonso, Borja M. Fernández-Félix, Ana Halperin, Mario Rodríguez-Domínguez, Ana M. Sánchez-Díaz, Rafael Cantón, Alfonso Muriel, Javier Zamora, Rosa del Campo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221005907