Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; The Wilson Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada; Women's College Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, Providence Health Care, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Br J Anaesth. 2024 Sep;133(3):479-482. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2024.06.002. Epub 2024 Jul 3.
Accumulating evidence supports an effect of physician gender (or sex, a surrogate used in many studies) on important patient outcomes such as death, complications, and hospital length of stay. Recent studies suggest that these effects result from the gender diversity of the team rather than individual physician gender. Here, we reflect on the potential mechanisms of an effect of physician gender on patient outcomes.
越来越多的证据表明,医生的性别(或在许多研究中使用的替代指标“性别”)会对患者的重要结局产生影响,例如死亡、并发症和住院时间。最近的研究表明,这些影响源自团队的性别多样性,而不是单个医生的性别。在这里,我们反思了医生性别对患者结局产生影响的潜在机制。