Physician gender effects in medical communication: a meta-analytic review.

By D. Roter, Judith A. Hall, Yutaka Aoki. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2002

1,353 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Patient-Centered Communication, Ratings of Care, and Concordance of Patient and Physician Race (2003, result): “2 Good 102 (41) 36 (49) 36 (35) 14 (40) 16 (42) Very good/excellent 83 (33) 21 (28) 40 (39) 11 (31) 11 (29) How well physician knows patient, n (%) Very well 79 (44) 32 (48) 29 (46) 8 (38) 10 (36) 0.”
• Navigating Social Roles in Pursuit of Important Goals: A Communal Goal Congruity Account of STEM Pursuits (2013, background): “Social roles often can be enacted flexibly (e.g., Roter et al., 2002), and thus the ability to find goal-consistent activities within the constraints of one’s social role is a viable strategy for more effective goal pursuit.”
• The his and hers of prosocial behavior: an examination of the social psychology of gender. (2009, neutral): “Th is a rti cl e is in te nd ed so le ly fo r t he p er so na l u se o f t he in di vi du al u se r a nd is n ot to b e di ss em in at ed b ro ad ly . for physicians’ positive talk, Roter et al., 2002).”
• Towards conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence (2025, neutral): “Other studies have found differences in physicians’ communication styles and conversation length based on gender 34 and on patients’ level of health literacy 35 .”
• Doctor-patient communication: a review. (2010, background): “Recognizing the impact of patient reciprocation of communication and affect in a medical visit is important as it may help create positive exchanges to defuse negative patterns.(25)”
• Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians (2017, background): “14 Although studies suggest differences in practice patterns and process measures of quality between male and female physicians, these studies have not examined patient outcomes, what we arguably care about the most.”