英国OBS仪表板:用于代表性试验地点选择的交互工具,以促进产妇研究中的平等和多样性
Amy Elsmore1,2, Tanvi Rai3, Philip Pallmann4
1The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Telford, UK. a.c.elsmore@keele.ac.uk.
Trials
|September 28, 2024
概括
交互式仪表板改善了参与英国产科出血研究 (OBS UK) 试验的产科病房的多样性. 该工具有助于确保研究反映了英国的种族和社会经济多样性,提高了概括性,解决了健康差异.
科学领域:
- 孕产妇健康 孕产妇健康
- 临床试验方法论 临床试验方法论
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 英国产后出血研究 (OBS UK) 是一项研究产后出血干预措施的试验.
- 之前的研究由于缺乏对照数据和种族多样性而受到限制.
- 非白人种族和社会经济贫困与增加的孕产妇风险有关.
研究的目的:
- 通过招募不同的产妇单位,确保试验结果的广泛适用性.
- 调查种族和社会剥夺对试验结果的影响.
- 提高英国OBS试验结果的概括性.
主要方法:
- 使用常规收集的,公开可用的数据开发交互式仪表板.
- 整合每年出生数据以及英国产妇单位的种族和社会经济人口统计数据.
- 用于为英国OBS试验的现场招聘提供信息的仪表板.
主要成果:
- 招募的OBS英国试验场所反映了英国人口的种族和社会经济多样性.
- 试验地点的种族:白人79.2%与81.7%,亚裔10.5%与9.3%,黑人4.7%与4.0%.
- 观察到网站人口统计,规模和位置的变化,并提供了关于缺少信息的数据.
结论:
- 开发的交互式仪表板是提高研究多样性的创新工具.
- 这种方法支持国家卫生和护理研究院 (NIHR) 的平等,多样性和包容性战略.
- 该工具可以帮助解决健康差异,并提高在产妇护理及其他领域的研究通用性.
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