Boys have better short-term and long-term survival rates after intensive care admissions than girls
Aim: We investigated possible gender differences in paediatric intensive care morbidity-adjusted mortality. Methods: In this study, data on all 21 972 paediatric intensive care admissions in Sweden between 2008 and 2015 were analysed regarding morbidity-adjusted survival, using Cox regression, with age, gender and estimated mortality ratio as dependent variables and using the standardised mortalit