Identification and Assessment of Strategies to Address Gender Inequity in the Specialty of Critical Care Medicine: A Scoping Review, Modified Consensus Process, and Stakeholder Meeting.

ABSTRACT: We sought to identify and prioritize improvement strategies that Critical Care Medicine (CCM) programs could use to inform and advance gender equity among physicians in CCM.

Design

This study involved three sequential phases: 1) scoping review that identified strategies to improve gender equity in all medical specialties; 2) modified consensus process with 48 CCM stakeholders to rate and rank identified strategies; and 3) in-person stakeholder meeting to refine strategies and discuss facilitators and barriers to their implementation.

Setting

CCM.

Subjects

CCM stakeholders (physicians, researchers, and decision-makers; mutually inclusive).

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

We identified 190 unique strategies from 416 articles. Strategies we

SUBMITTER: Parsons Leigh J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8769084 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature