Operating time was longer on average when female surgeons operated, but surgical complications occurred about 30 percent more often when men performed the procedures than when women did.
According to the researchers, the gender difference was clear when it comes to the complication of bile duct damage in planned surgery. However, no difference was seen in terms of bile duct injuries during acute biliary operations, or in mortality after the operations.
The study, which will be presented at the surgeon’s week in Örebro on Monday, is of an observational type and therefore certain causal relationships cannot be established. There may be other factors that explain the differences, the newspaper emphasizes.