Dr. Shannon Scratch, senior clinician scientist and neuropsychologist, shares her expertise with CBC News in a new study published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal that examined admittance rates to specialized trauma centres between women and men with traumatic brain injuries in Ontario. 

Dr. Scratch, who was not involved in the study,  ‘praised the research team for investigating sex-based differences in TBI care’. Quotes Dr. Scratch: "We know that brain injury research has been heavily skewed towards boys, towards men, for decades … so it's possible that [health-care teams] are actually employing the triage criteria correctly, but the triage criteria itself could be biased." Read more