According to an American study, older people who are treated by female doctors have much higher rates of survival and fewer relapses than those who are served by men.
The research, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine, was based on a sample of more than a million people whose medical records were analyzed from 2011 to 2014.
Those who had female doctors were significantly less likely to die within 30 days of hospitalization or to be reinserted within 30 days after discharge.
The researchers estimated that if men could achieve the same success as women in this area, there would be 32,000 fewer deaths each year, only among Medicare patients, a group that includes people over 65 years old.
The genre of the doctor seems to be particularly significant for the sickest patients,
informed the research.
The study was described as the first, national evaluation to compare outcomes among female and male physicians.
The study did not specify what the differences were.
However, previous researches have shown that female doctors tend to follow clinical guidelines more rigorously than men, and that women offer more patient-centered communication.
According to author Ashish Jha, a professor of health policy and director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, understanding different approaches is now more important than ever.
There was great evidence that tells us that male and female doctors practice medicine differently. Our findings suggest that these differences matter and they are important for the patient’s health,
declared Jha.