Does surgeon age or sex affect operative mortality in older surgical patients?
Older surgeon age, but not surgeon sex, is associated with lower operative mortality among Medicare beneficiaries.
Using national data on Medicare beneficiaries in the US, this study found that patients treated by older surgeons had lower mortality than patients treated by younger surgeons. There was no evidence that operative mortality differed between male and female surgeons.
Tsugawa et al. (Wed,) studied this question.