Sex-Based Disparities in Timeliness of Trauma Care and Discharge Disposition.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Differences in time to diagnostic and therapeutic measures can contribute to disparities in outcomes. However, whether there is an association of timeliness by sex for trauma patients is unknown.

Objective

To investigate whether sex-based differences in time to definitive interventions exist for trauma patients in the US and whether these differences are associated with outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a retrospective cohort study conducted from July 2020 to July 2021, using the 2013 to 2016 Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) databases from level I to III trauma centers in the US. Patients 18 years or older with an Injury Severity Score (ISS) greater than 15 and who carried diagnoses of traumatic brain injury, intra-abdominal inju

SUBMITTER: Ingram ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9118066 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature