Women's representation in venous thromboembolism randomized trials and registries: The illustrative example of direct oral anticoagulants for acute treatment

Affiliations

• ¹ Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Thrombosis Research Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Clinical Trials Center, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: bbikdeli@bwh.harvard.edu.
• ² Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Thrombosis Research Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Division of Hematology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴ Respiratory Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal and Medicine Department, Universidad de Alcalá (Instituto de Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari Germans Trials i Pujol, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁶ Department of Pharmacy Services, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine &, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences (RIHS), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• ⁸ Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ⁹ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ¹⁰ Haemostasis and Thrombosis Centre, St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London, United Kingdom.