Few women or ethnic minorities in acute care trials, analysis finds

Researchers call for mandatory reporting standards from funding agencies and journals

Few women or ethnic minorities are included in acute clinical care trials published in high-impact journals, a study has found.

The systematic review of 88 clinical trials in five leading general medical journals, published on 7 May in the journal BMJ Open, reported that trial participants were 79 per cent white and 66 per cent male.