A recent study by surgeons from Canada and the US, published in the Jama Surgery journal, found that patients operated on by female surgeons had fewer problems or deaths compared to those treated by male surgeons.
The study looked at the results of surgeries over a long time and showed that female surgeons had lower rates of bad outcomes, including death, 90 days and one year after surgery.
The study suggests that we should look into why this happens and how to make surgery outcomes better based on the surgeon’s gender. They looked at data from over a million patients in Canada who had surgeries between 2007 and 2019.
They found that 14.3% of patients had problems 90 days after surgery, and 25% had problems one year after surgery, with 2% and 4.3% dying in those timeframes, respectively.
