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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2014 Dec;21(12):1343–1349. doi: 10.1111/acem.12541

Table 1.

Rank Order of Consensus-driven Research Questions

Rank Consensus-based Questions* Mean Likert Score
1 Why do young men die more frequently than comparably aged women despite men having more favorable predictors of survival? 4.54
2 Are there sex disparities in withdrawal of care after cardiac arrest? 4.48
3 Do women have earlier advancement of code status (DNAR order) than men following cardiac arrest? 4.33
4 Do women respond to TTM similarly to their male counterparts? 4.31
5 Do women have improved neurological outcomes after TIM and is there an additive effect between TTM and endogenous sex steroids? 4.00

TTM = targeted temperature management.

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Voted in degree of importance from highest (5) to lowest (1).