Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ...
by magicalist on Monday August 06, 2018 @09:05PM
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> That directly contradicts this
No, it just means in this study's data, there was no statistically significant signal that there was a difference between the groups treated by a male doctor vs a female doctor.
That doesn't mean there's not a difference in outcomes, just that one isn't suitably demonstrated by this data, but it's also a result over a completely different subset of the population than was looked at by the study in the GP's link (which was of hospitalized Medicare patients age 65 or over).
Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ...
by tedsanders on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:23AM
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Actually if you look at their full sample data you'll see that women physicians had higher survival rates for both make and female patients. It's just that only female patients were statistically different from zero. And note that just because female-female was statistically significant and female-male was not, that doesn't by itself imply that female-female was statically distinguishable from female-male. (Though it may have been, I don't understand all the controls.)
> The researchers divided 500,000-plus cases into four categories: male doctors treating men; male doctors treating women; female doctors treating men; and female doctors treating women. “All of those are statistically indistinguishable except for male doctor–female patient,” says Brad Greenwood, an author on the study and a data scientist at the University of Minnesota.