Gender differences in funding among grant recipients in emergency medicine: A multicenter analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe differences in funded grants between male and female faculty in two academic emergency departments.

Methods

This was a retrospective analysis of grant funding at two academic emergency departments from January 2012-September 2018. We queried the grants department databases at each institution and obtained records of all funded grants for emergency medicine (EM) faculty. We extracted the following information for each award: gender of the principal investigator (PI), PI academic rank, grant mechanism (government, institutional, industry, organizational), and percent effort. Differences by gender were compared using Chi-square or Fisher's exact test and Wilcoxon-rank sum.

Results

One-hundred and thirty grants were awarded to EM faculty at the two i

SUBMITTER: Dubosh NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769158 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature