Why the study?
Does treatment by female surgeons reduce adverse postoperative outcomes including death at 90 days and 1 year after surgery in patients undergoing common surgeries?
Does treatment by female surgeons reduce adverse postoperative outcomes including death at 90 days and 1 year after surgery in patients undergoing common surgeries?
Treatment by female surgeons is associated with lower rates of adverse postoperative outcomes, including death at up to 1 year, compared to male surgeons.
Female surgeon care was associated with lower postoperative mortality; leaves open causality and should not yet change practice or referrals.
After accounting for patient, procedure, surgeon, anesthesiologist, and hospital characteristics, the findings of this cohort study suggest that patients treated by female surgeons have lower rates of adverse postoperative outcomes including death at 90 days and 1 year after surgery compared with those treated by male surgeons. These findings further support differences in patient outcomes based on physician sex that warrant deeper study regarding underlying causes and potential solutions.
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Wallis et al. (2023) studied this question.
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