Gender bias in clinical case reports: A cross-sectional study of the "big five" medical journals.

BACKGROUND:Gender bias in medical journals can affect the science and the benefit to patients. It has never been investigated in clinical case reports. The oversight is important because of the role clinical case reports play in hypothesis generation and medical education. We investigated contempora...

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Main Authors: Pascale Allotey, Caitlin Allotey-Reidpath, Daniel D Reidpath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5426670?pdf=render