Institute of Medicine
NAS Press
2012
ISBN: 0309225248 9780309225243
73 pages
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This issue summarizes the presentations and discussions by the expert panelists during the IOM workshop. The workshop focused on why sex-specific reporting is important. Panelists highlighted historical and current events that have hindered or helped to advance the study of women. Panelists in academe discussed the challenges of collecting, analyzing, and reporting sex-specific data from the researcher's perspective.

On August 30, 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice hosted the workshop Sex-Specific Reporting of Scientific Research.
The workshop explored the need for sex-specific reporting of scientific results; potential barriers and unintended consequences of sex-specific reporting of scientific results; experiences of journals that have implemented sex-specific requirements, including the challenges and benefits of such editorial policies; and steps to facilitate the reporting of sex-specific results.
Presentations and discussions highlighted the importance to both women and men of having sex-specific data, the problems with sample size and financial constraints for conducting the research, the appropriateness of sex-specific analyses, and the limitations of journal policies to change experimental designs.

Contents
OVERVIEW
INTRODUCTION
INCLUSION OF WOMEN IN CLINICAL TRIALS FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
WHY SEX-SPECIFIC REPORTING IS IMPORTANT
Early History
The Need to Study Both Sexes
Raising Awareness of Sex Differences
Barriers to Studying Sex Differences
Other Groups
Managing the Data
THE RESEARCHER PERSPECTIVE: COLLECTING, ANALYZING, AND REPORTING SEX-SPECIFIC DATA
Collecting the Data: Sex in Biomedical Research
Analyzing the Data: Methods of Subgroup Analysis
Reporting the Data
THE EDITOR PERSPECTIVE: IMPLEMENTING JOURNAL EDITORIAL POLICIES
Editorial Policy-Making
Sex and Gender Medicine vs Women’s Health
Preclinical vs Clinical Studies
Moving Toward Broader Sex-Specific Reporting
IMPLICATIONS FOR JOURNALS OF SEX-SPECIFIC REPORTING POLICIES OF JOURNALS
Nonclinical Science Journals
Interdisciplinary Science Journals
Medical Journals
Suggestions from the Editors
LOOKING FORWARD
The Role of Editorial Policy
Statistical Power for Subgroup Analysis
Summary of Participants’ Suggestions for Advancing Sex-Specific Reporting
CLOSING REMARKS
REFERENCES
APPENDIXES
A Workshop Agenda
B Speaker Biosketches
C Planning Committee Biosketches

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