General practitioner gender and use of diagnostic procedures: a French cross-sectional study in training practices.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The acceleration in the number of female doctors has led to questions about differences in how men and women practice medicine. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of general practitioner (GP) gender on the use of the three main categories of diagnostic procedures-clinical examinations, laboratory tests and imaging investigations.

Design

Cross-sectional nationwide multicentre study.

Setting

French training general practices.

Participants

The patient sample included all the voluntary patients over a cumulative period of 5 days per office between November 2011 and April 2012. The GP sample included 85 males and 43 females.

Methods

54 interns in general practice, observing their GP supervisors, collected data about the characteristi

SUBMITTER: Bouissiere A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9083381 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature