Patient-physician gender concordance

In an analysis of more than 500,000 observations on heart attack patients admitted to emergency departments in Florida hospitals between 1991 and 2010, female patients treated by male physicians were less likely to survive than male patients treated by male physicians; survival among female patients treated by male physicians increased with the proportion of female physicians in the emergency department and with increasing exposure of male physicians to female patients.

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Article #18-00097: "Patient-physician gender concordance and increased mortality among female heart attack patients," by Brad N. Greenwood, Seth Carnahan, and Laura Huang.

MEDIA CONTACT: Brad N. Greenwood, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; e-mail: wood@umn.edu