Sex/gender reporting and analysis in Campbell and Cochrane systematic reviews: a cross-sectional methods study

Ref ID 510
First Author J. Petkovic
Journal SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
Year Of Publishing 2018
URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090880/pdf/13643_2018_Article_778.pdf
Keywords • General medical
• Campbell
• Cochrane
• Equity
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 Canada
Aim To assess the extent to which sex/gender is reported and analysed in Campbell and Cochrane systematic reviews published between 2016 and 2017.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings Results sections described sex/gender in 37% of Campbell reviews and 75% of Cochrane reviews. Methods sections included the highest reporting of sex/gender in both Campbell (50.8%) and Cochrane (83.1%) reviews. 62% of Campbell reviews and 86% of Cochrane reviews did not report sex/gender in the abstract but included sex/gender considerations in a later section.
Number of systematic reviews included 688
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 811
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description