2023-08-31 18:00:38
People operated on by women are less likely to suffer complications and need follow-up care than those operated on by men, according to two studies published in the journal Jama Surgery on Wednesday, August 30.
Is it better to have the operation done by a man or a woman? Two studies have been conducted in Canada and Sweden to try to answer this question. And according to the results published in the journal Jama Surgery this Wednesday, patients are better cared for by women.
Indeed, as the British newspaper explains The Guardian who analyzed the results compiled by Canadian and Swedish doctors who reviewed more than a million records, the researchers found that those examined by women had significantly better prognoses, while having fewer complications as a result of the operation.
In detail, during the research, the doctors realized that the surgeons tended to operate more slowly on the patients, were more concentrated, deu determining factors to reduce the errors.
Dr Christopher Wallis, who led one of the studies at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto in Canada, said the results should make male surgeons think regarding their approach to surgery and take inspiration from their colleagues. women for the good of their patients. “As a male surgeon, I think this data should make me and my colleagues pause and think regarding why this is happening,” he said.
Proven results at all levels
His team also looked at medical complications, hospital readmissions and death rates following surgery in nearly 1.2 million patients in Ontario, Canada between 2007 and 2019. The records included 25 procedures different surgeries on the heart, brain, bones, organs and blood vessels.
The analysis showed that 90 days following an operation, 13.9% of patients treated by a male surgeon experienced “adverse postoperative events”, including death and medical complications ranging from problems requiring reoperation to major infections, heart attacks and strokes. The equivalent figure for patients treated by female surgeons was 12.5%.
Patients seen by female surgeons also fared better one year following surgery, with 20.7% experiencing an adverse postoperative event, compared to 25% of patients seen by male surgeons. When doctors looked only at postoperative deaths, the difference was even starker: Patients treated by male surgeons were 25% more likely to die one year following surgery than those treated by female surgeons.
A second study of 150,000 Swedish patients paints a similar picture. Dr. My Blohm and his colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm examined patient outcomes following gallbladder removal. They found that patients treated by female surgeons suffered from fewer complications and had shorter hospital stays than those treated by men.
“Interestingly, most of the previously published studies indicate that female surgeons are at least as good as male surgeons, or even slightly better, as is the case here,” Dr. My Blohm said.
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