Gender Parity in Critical Care Medicine
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. ; American College of Emergency Physicians ; American Thoracic Society Assembly on Critical Care, Women in Critical Care Working Group ; American Thoracic Society-Health Equality and Diversity Committee ; Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society ; Canadian Critical Care Society ; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group ; German SepNet Critical Care Trials Group ; German Sepsis Society ; Global Sepsis Alliance ; International Forum for Acute Care Trialists (InFACT) ; Latin American Sepsis Institute ; Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine ; George Institute for Global Health ; World Federation of Critical Care Nurses ; World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine ; Univ Toronto, Dept Med, Toronto, ON, Canada ; lnterdepartmental Div Crit Care Med, Toronto, ON, Canada ; Sinai Hlth Syst, Toronto, ON, Canada ; Univ Toronto, Lawrence S Bloomberg Fac Nursing, Toronto, ON, Canada ; Univ Toronto, Univ Hlth Network, Toronto, ON, Canada ; Canadian Crit Care Soc, Markham, ON, Canada ; St Michaels Hosp, lnterdepartmental Div Crit Care Med, Toronto, ON, Canada ; St Michaels Hosp, Dept Surg, Toronto, ON, Canada ; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Inst, Toronto, ON, Canada ; Univ Fed São Paulo, Anesthesiol Pain & Intens Care Dept, São Paulo, Brazil ; McMaster Univ, Hamilton Hlth Sci Thrombosis & Atherosclerosis Re, Hamilton, ON, Canada ; McMaster Univ, Dept Med, Hamilton, ON, Canada ; McMaster Univ, Clin Epidemiol & Biostat, Hamilton, ON, Canada ; McMaster Univ, Crit Care Med, Hamilton, ON, Canada ; Univ Calif San Francisco, Div Pulm Crit Care Allergy & Sleep Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA ; Univ Calif San Francisco, Cardiovasc Res Inst, San Francisco, CA USA ; Vanderbilt Univ, Sch Med, Dept Pathol Microbiol & Immunol, Nashville, TN 37212 USA ; Univ Colorado, Sch Med, Pulm Sci & Crit Care Med, Denver, CO USA ; Univ British Columbia, British Columbia Childrens Hosp, Dept Pediat, Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Univ Montreal, Hosp Ctr, Montreal, PQ, Canada ; Univ Montreal, Div Intens Care, Montreal, PQ, Canada ; George Inst Global Hlth, Div Crit Care & Trauma, Sydney, NSW, Australia ; Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia ; Jena Univ Hosp, Ctr Sepsis Control & Care, Dept Anesthesiol & Intens Care, Jena, Germany ; Global Sepsis Alliance, Jena, Germany ; Imperial Coll London, Dept Paediat, Wellcome Trust Ctr Clin Trop Med, London, England ; Univ Vermont, Div Pulm & Crit Care Med, Burlington, VT USA ; Makerere Univ, Dept Anesthesia & Crit Care, Kampala, Uganda ; Inst Med Sci, Bombay Hosp, Dept Crit Care Med, Bombay, Maharashtra, India ; Univ Fattouma Bourguiba, Ctr Hosp, Monastir, Tunisia ; Oslo Univ Hosp, Scandinavian Soc Anaesthesiol & Intens Care Med, Oslo, Norway ; Oslo Univ Hosp, Dept Anaesthesiol, Oslo, Norway ; Tribhuvan Univ, Teaching Hosp, Dept Anaesthesiol, Kathmandu, Nepal ; Univ Fed São Paulo, Anesthesiol Pain & Intens Care Dept, São Paulo, Brazil ; Web of Science