title: Gender Parity in Critical Care Medicine.
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.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Medicine.|2 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine.|3 Sinai Health System.
authors.forename: Sangeeta
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7073-4769
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.affiliation: 4 Canadian Critical Care Society, Markham, Ontario, Canada.|5 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and.|6 Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Karen E A
authors.initials: KEA
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.affiliation: 7 Anesthesiology, Pain, and Intensive Care Department, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Flavia R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.affiliation: 4 Canadian Critical Care Society, Markham, Ontario, Canada.|8 Hamilton Health Sciences, Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute.|9 Department of Medicine.
authors.forename: Alison E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Fox-Robichaud
authors.affiliation: 10 Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and.|11 Critical Care Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Deborah J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.affiliation: 12 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine and.|13 Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Carolyn S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Calfee
authors.affiliation: 14 Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
authors.forename: Lorraine B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Ware
authors.affiliation: 15 Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado.
authors.forename: Ellen L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Burnham
authors.affiliation: 16 Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Niranjan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kissoon
authors.affiliation: 5 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and.|17 Department of Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.|6 Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.affiliation: 18 University of Montreal Hospital Center and.|19 Division of Intensive Care, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mancebo
authors.affiliation: 20 Division of Critical Care and Trauma, The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia.|21 University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Finfer
authors.affiliation: 22 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hartog
authors.affiliation: 22 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.|23 Global Sepsis Alliance, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Konrad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Reinhart
authors.affiliation: 24 Wellcome Trust Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maitland
authors.affiliation: 25 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
authors.forename: Renee D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Stapleton
authors.affiliation: 26 Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kwizera
authors.affiliation: 27 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai, India.
authors.forename: Pravin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Amin
authors.affiliation: 28 Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Fattouma Bourguiba, Monastir, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Fekri
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Abroug
authors.affiliation: 29 Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and.|5 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and.|6 Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Orla
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: 30 Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.|31 Department of Anaesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; and.
authors.forename: Jon H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Laake
authors.affiliation: 32 Department of Anaesthesiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal.
authors.forename: Gentle S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Medicine.|2 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine.|33 University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Margaret S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Herridge
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017678:Sex Distribution; D063507:Sexism / Q000517:prevention & control*
keywords: critical care; diversity; gender; interprofessional