Health-care costs lower with women surgeons: study
Patients treated by female surgeons incur lower health-care costs than those treated by male surgeons, suggests an Ontario-based study of more than one million people.
The study examined health data for adult patients who had 25 common elective and emergency operations between 2007 and 2019. It found that one month, three months and one year after the patients’ procedures, costs were about 10 per cent lower for those whose surgeon was a woman.
Dr. Angela Jerath, a cardiac anesthesiologist at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and one of the study authors, said that represents significant savings for the health-care system — estimated at about $6.7 billion over one year — but more research is needed to better understand the factors behind the cost difference.
Source : www.thestar.com
