Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 50, Issue 2 , Pages 349-354 , August 2009

Under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in vascular surgery randomized controlled trials

Presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Symposium of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, Las Vegas, Nev, Mar 5-8, 2008.

  • Andrew W. Hoel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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  • Ahmed Kayssi, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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  • Soma Brahmanandam, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worchester, Mass
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  • Michael Belkin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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  • Michael S. Conte, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif
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  • Louis L. Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
    • Center for Surgery & Public Health, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Louis L. Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH, Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery and the Center for Surgery & Public Health, Brigham & Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115

Received 18 October 2008 ,Accepted 7 January 2009.

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    Proportion of participants enrolled in vascular surgery randomized controlled trials (RCT) compared with estimated proportion of patients receiving procedures from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS

    Proportion of participants enrolled in vascular surgery randomized controlled trials (RCT) compared with estimated proportion of patients receiving procedures from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) for (A) female gender and (B) minority ethnicity. **P < .001 by χ2.

 This work was supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K23 Research Career Development Award (HL084386) to Dr Nguyen.

 Competition of interest: none.

 Additional material for this article may be found online at www.jvascsurg.org.

PII: S0741-5214(09)00018-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.01.012

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 50, Issue 2 , Pages 349-354 , August 2009

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