| Ref ID | 170 |
| First Author | J. Lopez-Alcalde |
| Journal | BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH |
| Year Of Publishing | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419810/pdf/12913_2019_Article_4001.pdf |
| Keywords |
• General medical • Equity • Cochrane |
| Problem(s) |
• Failure to consider equity, different socioeconomic groups or disadvantaged populations |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Spain |
| Aim | To assess the extent to which Cochrane reviews of interventions published between 1995 to 2016 for preventing healthcare-associated infections consider sex and gender using the Sex and Gender Appraisal Tool for Systematic Reviews (SGAT-SR). |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Consideration of sex and gender was practically absent in the included reviews. No review met all the applicable items of the Sex and Gender Appraisal Tool for Systematic Reviews, and 50% fulfilled no item of this checklist. No review provided a complete description of the sex and the gender of the samples of the included studies. Only 10% of reviews planned to perform sex- and gender-based analysis and only 3% could complete the analysis. 3% of reviews considered sex or gender-related findings in the conclusions. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 113 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 7156 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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