Australian, American, Canadian and British panels that developed clinical practice recommendations most often consisted of white men and excluded historically underrepresented women, researchers reported in The Lancet.
“It surprised me that these institutions, governments and journals all officially support fairness, equity and diversity but in practice seem fine with fairly homogenous guideline panels that predominantly include white men,” Nav Persaud, MD, MSc, the Canada research chair in health justice, a physician and scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital and an associate