Gender versus sex in predicting outcomes of traumatic brain injury: a cohort study utilizing large administrative databases.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the factors associated with elevated risks and adverse consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an integral part of developing preventive measures for TBI. Brain injury outcomes differ based on one's sex (biological characteristics) and gender (social characteristics reflecting norms and relationships), however, whether it is sex or gender that drives differences in early (30-day) mortality and discharge location post-TBI is not well understood. In the absence of a gender variable in existing data, we developed a method for "measuring gender" in 276,812 residents of Ontario, Canada who entered the emergency department and acute care hospitals with a TBI diagnostic code between April 1st, 2002, and March 31st, 2020. We applied logistic regression to analyse differences

SUBMITTER: Teterina A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10611793 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature