Patient-reported Outcomes after Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Are Not Affected by the Sex of the Surgeon : A Register-based Study of 8,383 Procedures in Western Sweden
Introduction: Female surgeons remain a minority within the field of orthopaedics, particularly in certain specialties such as arthroplasty. There is no scientific evidence on whether the surgeon's sex affects the patient-reported outcome after orthopaedic surgery such as total hip arthroplasty (THA). We therefore aimed to investigate the association between surgeon sex and health-related quality o