Sex diversity in surgical teams is linked to better postoperative outcomes for patients, research finds

Patients have better postoperative outcomes when surgery is carried out by surgical and anaesthetic teams with greater sex diversity, shows research published in the British Journal of Surgery.1Teams in which at least 35% of the anaesthetists and surgeons were female achieved the best results, as patients treated by such teams had 3% lower odds of experiencing major morbidity within 90 days of the procedure, the study found. Major morbidity was defined as postsurgical interventions such as endoscopy or interventional radiology, return to the operating room, admission to intensive care, or death.The research team assessed data on 709 899 major inpatient procedures carried out in 88 hospitals in Ontario, Canada, from 2009 to 2019. They looked at the effect of sex diversity in hospitals’ overall anaesthetic and surgical teams on postsurgical outcomes, as well as the sex of the specific surgeon or anaesthetist, using multivariable logistic regression.Across the 88 hospitals 102…
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