Associations between physician gender and treatment in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2: Results from the DUTY register (Diabetes mellitus needs unrestricted evaluation of patient data to yield treatment progress)
| Autor: | K. P. Bestehorn, Michael Böhm, I. Berthold, Wilhelm Krone, HK Berthold |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Statin business.industry medicine.drug_class Surrogate endpoint Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Incidence (epidemiology) Patient data medicine.disease Physician gender Diabetes mellitus Internal medicine medicine Physical therapy In patient Medical prescription business |
| Zdroj: | Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel. 1 |
| ISSN: | 1861-9010 1861-9002 |
| DOI: | 10.1055/s-2006-943896 |
| Popis: | Purpose of the study: When analyzing gender aspects in medicine, the possible role of the gender of the treating physician has not received the same attention as the gender of the patient. Methods: In order to examine possible associations between gender of physicians, gender of patients and treatment parameters we evaluated datasets of >53,000 patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 from the DUTY register. Results: 33% of the physicians were female (F). The proportion of F patients was higher for F than for male (M) physicians (55.5% vs. 49.4%, P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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