Consideration of sex and gender in Cochrane reviews of interventions for preventing healthcare-associated infections : a methodology study
Lopez-Alcalde, Jesus (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Pediatria, Obstetrícia i Ginecologia i Medicina Preventiva i Salut Pública)
Stallings, Elena (Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (Madrid))
Cabir Nunes, Sheila (Independent Researcher, Madrid, Spain)
Fernández Chávez, Abelardo (Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (Madrid))
Daheron, Mathilde (Independent Researcher, Madrid, Spain)
Bonfill, X. (Xavier) (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)
Zamora, Javier (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública)

Fecha:	2019
Resumen:	Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are common and increase morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Their control continues to be an unresolved issue worldwide. HAIs epidemiology shows sex/gender differences. Thus the lack of consideration of sex/gender in Cochrane reviews will limit their applicability and capacity to support informed decisions. This study aims to describe the extent to which Cochrane reviews of interventions for preventing HAIs consider sex and gender. Methodology study appraising Cochrane reviews of interventions to prevent HAIs. Search methods: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from 1995 (launch of the journal) to 31 December 2016. Two authors independently extracted data with EPPI-Reviewer 4 software, and independently appraised the sex/gender content of the reviews with the Sex and Gender Appraisal Tool for Systematic Reviews (SGAT-SR). This study included 113 reviews assessing the effects of interventions for preventing HAIs. 100 reviews (88%) used at least one sex or gender-related term. The terminology used was heterogeneous, being "sex" the term used in more reviews (51%). No review defined neither sex nor gender. Thus we could not assess the definitions provided. Consideration of sex and gender was practically absent in the included reviews; in fact, no review met all the applicable items of the SGAT-SR, and 51 reviews (50%) fulfilled no item. No review provided a complete description of the sex and the gender of the samples of the included studies. Only ten reviews (10%) planned to perform sex- and gender-based analysis and only three (3%) could complete the analysis. The method chosen was always the subgroup analysis based on sex (one review) or gender (two reviews). Three reviews (3%) considered sex or gender-related findings in the conclusions. Consideration of sex and gender in Cochrane reviews of interventions for preventing HAIs was practically absent. This lack of attention to sex and gender reduces the quality of Cochrane reviews, and their applicability for all people: women and men, boys and girls, and people of diverse gender identities. Cochrane should attempt to address the shortfalls detected. The online version of this article (10. 1186/s12913-019-4001-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Nota:	Altres ajuts: This study is part of the SEXCOMPLEX project ("Influence of sex and sex hormones on human chronic disorders of complex etiology"), a two-year project (2017-2019) coordinated by Hospital Ramón y Cajal (Madrid, Spain). The SEXCOMPLEX project was supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Plan Estatal de I + D + i 2013-2016) and co-financed by the European Development Regional Fund "A way to achieve Europe" (ERDF) grant number PIE16/00050. These funding sources had no role in the design of this study, its execution, analyses, interpretation of the data, or decision to submit results.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Systematic reviews ; Data extraction ; Sex ; Gender ; Sex/gender ; Equity ; Cochrane ; Gender bias ; Healthcare-associated infection
Publicado en:	BMC health services research, Vol. 19 (march 2019) , ISSN 1472-6963

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-019-4001-9
PMID: 30876452

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