PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - D G Keuken AU - J A Haafkens AU - J Mohrs AU - N S Klazinga AU - P J E Bindels TI - Evaluating the effectiveness of an educational and feedback intervention aimed at improving consideration of sex differences in guideline development AID - 10.1136/qshc.2007.025643 DP - 2010 Dec 01 TA - Quality and Safety in Health Care PG - e18--e18 VI - 19 IP - 6 4099 - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/19/6/e18.short 4100 - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/19/6/e18.full SO - Qual Saf Health Care2010 Dec 01; 19 AB - Objectives To investigate the effect of an educational and feedback intervention to enhance consideration of sex differences in clinical guideline development.Design Preintervention and postintervention questionnaires in intervention and control groups. Content analysis of intervention guidelines and former versions.Setting Guideline consultants, working-group members and guideline documents of two Dutch guideline-developing organisations.Main outcome measures Attitudes of guideline developers concerning the importance of considering sex differences and the number of the sex-specific statements in the contents of guideline documents.Results The attitude of the intervention group did not change significantly relative to the control group. Consideration of sex-related factors within the guidelines increased relative to available previous versions.Conclusion Education and expert feedback may increase consideration of sex differences in guidelines. Further efforts are needed to implement and test these interventions.