News yesterday stating that Women Doctors are more likely to treat a patient better than a male Dr

I heard this news extract yesterday on NPR stating that if you're treated by a female Doctor you will fare better than if you were treated by a Male Doctor: See link below:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/19/506144346/patients-cared-for-by-female-doctors-fare-better-than-those-treated-by-men

The study looked at

female doctors who care for elderly hospitalized patients get better results.

NOT ALL patients.

To Switchablesusie

No, read the whole article it covers all patients

That's not what the NPR article said. The NPR article specifically said elderly hospitalized patients in two places. (Medicare patients)

I will read the actual study. The NPR article ISN'T the journal article.

The lay articles frequently get things wrong.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE ORIGINAL PAPER TITLE AND JOURNAL?

An author, journal, year, volume, and page number would be just perfect!

I did a google scholar search and did not find it.

@Switchablesusie said

I will read the actual study. The NPR article ISN'T the journal article.

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DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE ORIGINAL PAPER TITLE AND JOURNAL?

An author, journal, year, volume, and page number would be just perfect!

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2593255

This link was supplied in the NPR article. I haven't had a chance to read through this webpage but at first glance it seems to be the original journal article.

I would agree. I have had mostly females and am very healthy.

The link JR3 gave is to the original article.

The NPR article certainly hid it well by not mentioning the two words that was the link, was actually the link to the article. I don't go clicking things in URLs because god knows what ads and other web pages you get taken to.

The results were interesting, and as I said in my early post, the results were for elderly patients.

JAMA is not my idea of a particularly renowned journal. I wonder what the point of this was?

I did not read the article, but I noticed that there were approximately 50% more female patients in the study. I wonder f that might account for at least a portion of the variance.