The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the workshop summary on Sex Specific Reporting of Scientific Research in response to a 2010 report, Women’s Health Research: Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise that stated, once again and still, that data has not being reported by sex, which has led to slower progress in the optimal delivery of women’s health. Even as women's participation in clinical trials has increased over the past 20 years, we are still underrepresented and the inclusion of women has not translated to results consistently analyzed separately by sex.This past August, the IOM’s Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice addressed the recommendation that journals should adopt a guideline to have articles share the outcomes of clinical trials for both men and women, reported separately. The workshop focus went beyond clinical trials to look at sex-specific reporting in all types of scientific research.
The need for sex-specific reporting as well as the benefits of and potential barriers to such reporting are addressed in this report.
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