Centre for Analysis and Health Programmes (CAPS)

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Carme Valls Llobet

Doctor of Medicine specialised in endocrinology and medicine with a gender perspective, director of the 'Women, Health and Quality of Life' programme at the Centre for Analysis and Health Programmes (CAPS)

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Reactions: being treated by a female doctor is associated with a lower risk of mortality than by a male doctor, study finds

A US study has found that patients treated by female physicians have lower rates of mortality and hospital readmission than those treated by male physicians. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and involving more than 700,000 patients over the age of 65, found that the effects were even greater when female patients were treated by female physicians.