Female Enrollment in Rehabilitation Trials: A Systematic Review of Reporting Sex and Female Participation in Randomized Controlled Trials of Poststroke Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Over 50 Years.
Sarvenaz MehrabiAmber HarnettMarcus SaikaleyJamie L FleetJanice J EngMark BayleyRobert TeasellPublished in: Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation (2024)
Evidence-based medicine for the treatment and prevention of stroke is guided by results from RCTs. Generalizability depends on sufficient representation in clinical trials. Stakeholders, such as funders and journal editors, play a key role in encouraging researchers to enroll enough of both sexes and to report the presence or absence of sex differences in RCTs.