Surgeon Sex and Long-Term Postoperative Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Common Surgeries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Sex- and gender-based differences in a surgeon's medical practice and communication may be factors in patients' perioperative outcomes. Patients treated by female surgeons have improved 30-day outcomes. However, whether these outcomes persist over longer follow-up has not been assessed.

Objective

To examine whether surgeon sex is associated with 90-day and 1-year outcomes among patients undergoing common surgeries.

Design, setting, and participants

A population-based retrospective cohort study was conducted in adults in Ontario, Canada, undergoing 1 of 25 common elective or emergent surgeries between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2019. Analysis was performed between July 15 and October 20, 2022.

Exposure

Surgeon sex.

Main outcomes and measures

SUBMITTER: Wallis CJD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10469289 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature