More women electrophysiologists needed to address significant gender disparity in this male-dominated field (IMAGE)

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More women electrophysiologists needed to address significant gender disparity in this male-dominated field

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Investigators determined the trend in women operators of >10 Medicare electrophysiology (EP) procedures from 2013-2019 in the United States. Left: Graphs show the percentage of women electrophysiology operators (solid red line) as compared to total electrophysiology operators (dashed black line) of cumulative EP procedures (Panel A), atrial fibrillation ablation (Panel B), supraventricular tachycardia/flutter ablation (Panel C), and device implantation (Panel D). Right: Geographic distribution of women (blue) versus men (red) electrophysiology operators of >10 Medicare procedures annually for each procedure type.

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