Sex-Specific Reporting of Scientific Research: A Workshop Summary

The number of women participating in clinical trials has increased during the last two decades, but women are still underrepresented in clinical trials in general. Some of the overall increase can be attributed to the greater number of women-only trials (of therapies for diseases that affect only women). Even when women are included in clinical trials, the results are often not analyzed separately by sex. On August 30, 2011, the Institute of Medicine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309225248
• ISBN13: 9780309225243
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 72 Pages