Patients with female doctors have lower risk of death, research shows
Multiple studies have shown that having a female doctor could lower one's risk of death or major health issues after a surgery or hospitalization.
Having a female doctor could lower the risk of death or major health issues after surgery or hospitalization, studies have shown over and over.
The latest evidence, published Wednesday in the British Journal of Surgery, finds that surgical teams with more women see fewer health complications among patients than male-dominated teams.
The study compared hospitals in Canada where female surgeons and anesthesiologists made up more than 35% of the surgical teams to hospitals with a smaller share of female doctors. Higher levels of gender diversity were associated with a 3% lower chance of serious health complications for patients within three months of a major, non-emergency surgery.
The findings are based on an analysis of more than 700,000 procedures at 88 hospitals in Ontario between 2009 and 2019.
A handful of studies over the last decade have similarly shown that female doctors have better patient outcomes.
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