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Sex differences in mortality among critically ill children in Pakistan
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I read with interest the article on the outcomes of critically ill children in Pakistan.1 There are two surprising findings that the authors did not discuss. First, only 37% of the attending children were female. Second, 59% of all deaths were female. One can calculate the male death rate (8.2%) …
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