Gender Parity in Critical Care Medicine

Sangeeta Mehta; Karen E A Burns; Flavia R Machado; Alison E Fox-Robichaud; Deborah J Cook; Carolyn S Calfee; Lorraine B Ware; Ellen L Burnham; Niranjan Kissoon; John C Marshall; Jordi Mancebo; Simon Finfer; Christiane Hartog; Konrad Reinhart; Kathryn Maitland; Renee D Stapleton; Arthur Kwizera; Pravin Amin; Fekri Abroug; Orla Smith; Jon H Laake; Gentle S Shrestha; Margaret S Herridge

doi:10.1164/rccm.201701-0076CP

Gender Parity in Critical Care Medicine

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2017 Aug 15;196(4):425-429. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201701-0076CP.

Authors

Sangeeta Mehta^{1

2

3}, Karen E A Burns^{4

5

6}, Flavia R Machado⁷, Alison E Fox-Robichaud^{4

8

9}, Deborah J Cook^{10

11}, Carolyn S Calfee^{12

13}, Lorraine B Ware¹⁴, Ellen L Burnham¹⁵, Niranjan Kissoon¹⁶, John C Marshall^{5

17

6}, Jordi Mancebo^{18

19}, Simon Finfer^{20

21}, Christiane Hartog²², Konrad Reinhart^{22

23}, Kathryn Maitland²⁴, Renee D Stapleton²⁵, Arthur Kwizera²⁶, Pravin Amin²⁷, Fekri Abroug²⁸, Orla Smith^{29

5

6}, Jon H Laake^{30

31}, Gentle S Shrestha³², Margaret S Herridge^{1

2

33}

Affiliations

¹ 1 Department of Medicine.
² 2 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine.
³ 3 Sinai Health System.
⁴ 4 Canadian Critical Care Society, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ 5 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and.
⁶ 6 Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ 7 Anesthesiology, Pain, and Intensive Care Department, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
⁸ 8 Hamilton Health Sciences, Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute.
⁹ 9 Department of Medicine.
¹⁰ 10 Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and.
¹¹ 11 Critical Care Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
¹² 12 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine and.
¹³ 13 Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California.
¹⁴ 14 Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
¹⁵ 15 Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado.
¹⁶ 16 Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁷ 17 Department of Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁸ 18 University of Montreal Hospital Center and.
¹⁹ 19 Division of Intensive Care, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
²⁰ 20 Division of Critical Care and Trauma, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia.
²¹ 21 University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
²² 22 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
²³ 23 Global Sepsis Alliance, Jena, Germany.
²⁴ 24 Wellcome Trust Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
²⁵ 25 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
²⁶ 26 Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
²⁷ 27 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai, India.
²⁸ 28 Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Fattouma Bourguiba, Monastir, Tunisia.
²⁹ 29 Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and.
³⁰ 30 Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.
³¹ 31 Department of Anaesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; and.
³² 32 Department of Anaesthesiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
³³ 33 University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. These documents inform and shape patient care around the world. In this Perspective we discuss the importance of diversity on guideline panels, the disproportionately low representation of women on critical care guideline panels, and existing initiatives to increase the representation of women in corporations, universities, and government. We propose five strategies to ensure gender parity within critical care medicine.

Keywords: critical care; diversity; gender; interprofessional.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Critical Care*
Female
Humans
Interprofessional Relations*
Male
Practice Guidelines as Topic*
Sex Distribution
Sexism / prevention & control*

Grants and funding

203077/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom