Primary Care Delivery Perceptions and Their Associations with Physician and Patient Gender.
Care delivery
Gender
Patient satisfaction
Physician
Journal
Journal of community health
ISSN: 1573-3610
Titre abrégé: J Community Health
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7600747
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
accepted:
09
03
2023
medline:
17
7
2023
pubmed:
29
3
2023
entrez:
28
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We aim to survey patients' opinions on perceived differences in patient care delivered by male and female physicians. Patients of primary care practices at Mayo Clinic, Arizona completed a survey sent through the electronic health record. The survey evaluated opinion regarding their primary care physician (PCP)'s overall healthcare provision capabilities and any perceived differences based on gender. 4983 patients' responses were included in final analysis. Compared to male patients, most female patients preferred to have a female PCP (78.1% vs. 32.7%, p < 0.01). Having a preference for female physicians was correlated with higher overall opinion of female physicians. The majority of male patients did not hold a difference in opinion regarding male versus female physicians (p < 0.01). Male patients were half as likely to have a better opinion and nearly 2.5 times more likely to have a worse opinion of female physicians (p < 0.01) compared to female patients. Patients preferring female physicians were nearly 3 times more likely to have a better opinion of female physicians compared to patients with no preference (p < 0.01). In a primary care setting, majority of female patients compared to male patients preferred female physicians as their PCP and had higher opinion of the care delivery of female physicians. These findings may influence how practices should assign primary care physicians to new patients and add underlying context to patient satisfaction ratings.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36976390
doi: 10.1007/s10900-023-01211-x
pii: 10.1007/s10900-023-01211-x
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
711-717Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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