Comment on Hospital surgical teams with more women improve patient recovery, study finds

Chuymatt@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The why is a much harder question.

  You’re right about it probably being true, this is not the first study to find something similar, there’s two others reported on here: Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons, studies find

  It’s interesting that this study looked at the proportion of women on the surgical team:

  Overall, female surgeons performed 47,874 (6.7%) of the operations. Female anaesthesiologists treated patients in 192,144 (27%) of operations.

  Hospitals with teams comprising more than 35% female surgeons and anaesthesiologists had better postoperative outcomes, the study found. Operations in such hospitals were associated with a 3% reduction in the odds of 90-day postoperative major morbidity in patients.

  There’s some speculation in that first link about differences in aggression and risk-taking. But, given the relative rarity of female surgeons, it could just be a competency effect. If women are a very small minority for reasons not related to competency, and 93.3% of surgeons are men, it suggests that almost half the men are in the job because a more competent women didn’t get it. Groups with more women do better simply because they didn’t discount half the talent pool quite so heavily.

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  • Chuymatt@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For those not aware, even 3% is a pretty high reduction rate in complications.

    Your theories make a lot of sense. Thanks for that.

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    • leds@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could also be that modern big city hospitals are more likely to employ woman compared to some backwater rural hospital that is struggling and had all the worst patients? But they probably corrected for that?

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