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2. Gender Differences in Neurological Emergencies Part II: A Consensus Summary and Research Agenda on Traumatic Brain Injury

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Tamara R. Espinoza, David W. Wright, Anika Backster, Donald G. Stein, Lisa H. Merck, and Jonathan J. Ratcliff

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Biomedical Research, Consensus, Attitude of Health Personnel, Traumatic brain injury, Poison control, Suicide prevention, Article, Occupational safety and health, Sex Factors, Risk Factors, Injury prevention, medicine, Humans, Psychiatry, Cause of death, Sex Characteristics, Trauma Severity Indices, business.industry, Gender Identity, Human factors and ergonomics, General Medicine, medicine.disease, nervous system diseases, Treatment Outcome, nervous system, Brain Injuries, Emergency Medicine, Female, Emergencies, Emergency Service, Hospital, business, Sex characteristics
Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. There is strong evidence that gender and sex play an important role across the spectrum of TBI, from pathophysiology to clinical care. In May 2014, Academic Emergency Medicine held a consensus conference "Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes." A TBI working group was formed to explore what was known about the influence of sex and gender on TBI and to identify gaps for future research. The findings resulted in four major recommendations to guide the TBI research agenda.

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2014
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