Gender Disparities in Cardiac Surgery Trials: Leadership, Authorship, and Patient Enrollment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies have highlighted the paucity of women-led randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in cardiovascular medicine. Whether this finding also applies to cardiac surgery has not been evaluated. In this study, we evaluate women authorship, leadership, and women enrollment in cardiac surgery RCTs.

Methods

A systematic literature search was conducted to identify RCTs comparing 2 or more adult cardiac surgical procedures published from 2000 to 2022. Women-led RCTs were defined as those with a woman as either a first or last author. Linear regression and correlation analyses were used.

Results

Of 58 RCTs, 8 (13.8%) were women-led; 17 (29.3%) RCTs had no women authors. Overall, 17.9% of all authors were women, but only 1.2% of all authors were women cardiac surgeons

SUBMITTER: Soletti GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10468099 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature