Journal article
Gender Representation in American Urological Association Guidelines
Urology (Ridgewood, N.J.), Vol.156, pp.47-51
10/2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2021.02.027
PMID: 33676953
Abstract
To study patterns and factors associated with female representation in the American Urological Association (AUA) guidelines.
We gathered publicly available information about the panelists, including the AUA section, practice setting, academic rank, fellowship training, years in practice, and H-index. The factors associated with the proportion of female panelists and trends were investigated. We also examined the proportion of female panelists in the European Association of Urology (EAU) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) urology guidelines.
There were 483 non-unique panelists in AUA guidelines, and 17% are female. Non-urologist female panelists in AUA guidelines represented a higher proportion than female urologists (30% vs 13%, P<0.0001). Compared with male panelists, females had lower H-indices (median 23 vs 35, P<0.001), and fewer were fellowship-trained (77.2% vs 86.8%; P=0.042). On multivariate analysis, non-urologists and panelists with lower H-indices were more likely to be female but there was no association between guideline specialties, academic ranking, geographic section, years in practice, and fellowship training with increased female authorship. Overtime, the proportion of female participation in guidelines remained stable. In the EAU and NCCN guideline panels, 12.2% and 10.7% were female, respectively.
Female representation among major urologic guidelines members is low and unchanged overtime. Female urologist participation was proportional to their representation in the urology workforce. Being a non-urologist and lower H-indices were associated with female membership in guideline panels.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Gender Representation in American Urological Association Guidelines
- Creators
- Helen Y Hougen - Oregon Health & Science UniversityFrancesca R Goodstein - Oregon Health & Science UniversitySolange Bassale - Oregon Health & Science UniversityYiyi Chen - Oregon Health & Science UniversityCasey A Seideman - Oregon Health & Science UniversitySudhir Isharwal - Oregon Health & Science University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Urology (Ridgewood, N.J.), Vol.156, pp.47-51
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.urology.2021.02.027
- PMID
- 33676953
- ISSN
- 0090-4295
- eISSN
- 1527-9995
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2021
- Academic Unit
- Urology
- Record Identifier
- 9984701554202771
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