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December 19, 2016
Elderly people treated by female doctors in hospital had significantly better survival rates and fewer readmissions than those treated by male doctors (AFP Photo/Pascal Lachenaud) |
Miami (AFP)
- Elderly people who were treated by female doctors in the hospital had
significantly better survival rates and fewer readmissions than those treated
by male doctors, said a US study Monday.
The
findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal
Medicine were based on a sample of more than one million people whose records
were analyzed from 2011 to 2014.
Those with
female doctors were significantly less likely to die within 30 days of
admission, or to be readmitted within 30 days of discharge.
If men
could achieve the same success as women in this realm, researchers estimated
that there would be 32,000 fewer deaths each year among Medicare patients
alone, a group that includes people over 65.
The number
is about the same as the death toll across the United States from car accidents
in a given year, the report said.
"The
difference in mortality rates surprised us," said lead author Yusuke
Tsugawa, research associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management
at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
"The
gender of the physician appears to be particularly significant for the sickest
patients."
The study
was described as the first national assessment of its kind to compare outcomes
among patients of female and male doctors.
A doctor
assesses a patient at Limoges university hospital (AFP Photo/
Pascal Lachenaud)
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It found
that patients treated by a female physician had a four percent lower relative
risk of dying prematurely compared to those treated by men.
Patients
cared for by women doctors had a five percent lower relative risk of being
readmitted to a hospital within 30 days.
"The
association was seen across a wide variety of clinical conditions and
variations in severity of illness," said the report.
The study
did not delve into the reasons for the differences.
However,
previous research has shown that female doctors tend to follow clinical
guidelines more closely than men, and that women provide more patient-centered
communication.
A better
understanding of the different approaches is now more important than ever, said
senior author Ashish Jha, professor of health policy and director of the
Harvard Global Health Institute.
"There
was ample evidence that male and female physicians practice medicine
differently. Our findings suggest that those differences matter and are
important to patient health," said Jha.
"We
need to understand why female physicians have lower mortality so that all
patients can have the best possible outcomes, irrespective of the gender of
their physician."
Female
physicians now account for approximately one third of doctors in the United
States, and about half of all US medical school graduates.
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