Publications by authors named "Sinead M O'Shaughnessy"
Article Synopsis
- Women are significantly underrepresented in academic anesthesiology, with only 24% of authors being female and just 24% of guidelines being woman-led over the past five years.
- A total of 51 clinical practice guidelines from top anesthesia journals were analyzed, revealing that many guidelines had few or no female authors, and the number of woman-led guidelines did not change during this period.
- While woman-led guidelines featured a higher percentage of female authors and coauthors compared to man-led guidelines, there was no marked difference in the overall quality or ratings of the guidelines between genders, although a general improvement in guideline quality was noted over time.
Background: Guidance documents are a valuable resource to clinicians to guide evidenced-based decision making. The quality of guidelines in anaesthesia and across other specialties has been demonstrated to be poor. COVID-19 presented an urgent need for immediate guidance for anaesthetists as frontline clinicians.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical practice guidelines are increasingly important to guide clinical care. However, they can vary widely in quality, and many recommendations are based on low-level evidence. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for new flexible formats for rigorously developed guidelines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical practice guidelines are a valuable resource aiding medical decision-making based on scientific evidence. In anaesthesia, guidelines are increasing in both number and scope, influencing individual practice and shaping local departmental policy. The aim of this review is to assess the quality of clinical practice guidelines published in high impact anaesthesia journals over the past 5 yr using the internationally validated Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument.
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