Variables across emergency physician gender
| Variable | All patients n=2630 (100%) | Seen by male physician n=2114 (80.4%) | Seen by female physician n=516 (19.6%) | P value |
| Patient age (years), mean (SD) | 32.8 (5.9) Range 15.3–51.5 | 32.7 (6.0) Range 15.3–51.5 | 32.9 (5.7) Range 18.6–47.0 | 0.577 |
| Year of presentation, no (%) | ||||
| 2014 | 570 (21.7) | 471 (22.3) | 99 (19.2) | 0.188 |
| 2015 | 524 (19.9) | 431 (20.4) | 93 (18.0) | |
| 2016 | 457 (17.4) | 371 (17.5) | 86 (16.7) | |
| 2017 | 403 (15.3) | 317 (15.0) | 86 (16.7) | |
| 2018 | 362 (13.8) | 280 (13.2) | 82 (15.9) | |
| 2019 | 314 (11.9) | 244 (11.5) | 70 (13.5) | |
| Triage-to-physician assessment time (min), mean (SD) | 102.8 (76.4) Range 0–728 | 103.1 (75.3) Range 0–536 | 101.7 (81.0) Range 0–728 | 0.381 |
| CTAS, no (%) | ||||
| II | 774 (29.4) | 606 (28.7) | 168 (32.6) | 0.376 |
| III | 1174 (44.6) | 956 (45.2) | 218 (42.2) | |
| IV | 612 (23.3) | 495 (23.4) | 117 (22.7) | |
| V | 70 (2.7) | 57 (2.7) | 13 (2.5) | |
| Type of pregnancy loss, no (%) | ||||
| Incomplete spontaneous abortion | 1672 (63.6) | 1321 (62.5) | 351 (68.0) | 0.019 |
| Missed abortion | 958 (36.4) | 793 (37.5) | 165 (32.0) | |
| Hb (g/L), mean (SD) | 129.7 (13.3) Range 61–171 n=1934 | 130.0 (13.0) Range 61–163 n=1522 | 128.7 (14.6) Range 75–171 n=412 | 0.171 |
| HCG (mIU/mL), mean (SD) | 9773.75 (18037.61) Range 1–199 470 n=1410 | 9858.9 (17946.3) Range 1–199 470 n=1120 | 9444.9 (18413.9) Range 1–190 234 n=290 | 0.772 |
| Inpatient length of stay (days), no (%), n=731 | ||||
| 1 | 678/731 (92.7) | 522/564 (92.6) | 156/167 (93.4) | 0.269 |
| 2 | 45/731 (6.2) | 37/564 (6.6) | 8/167 (4.8) | |
| 3 | 7/731 (1.0) | 5/564 (0.9) | 2/167 (1.2) | |
| 4 | 1/731 (0.1) | 0/564 (0) | 1/167 (0.6) | |
| Physician characteristics | ||||
| Age of physician seen (years), mean (SD) | 49.4 (9.1) Range 34.8–72.3 | 50.4 (8.5) Range 35.2–72.3 | 46.5 (8.0) Range 34.8–68.1 | <0.001 |
| Training of physician seen, no (%) | ||||
| CCFP-EM | 1536 (58.4) | 1287 (60.9) | 249 (48.3) | <0.001 |
| FRCPC | 1094 (41.6) | 827 (39.1) | 267 (51.7) | |
| Physician years of practice (years), mean (SD) | 15.4 (8.7) Range 3.9–41.3 | 16.8 (8.3) Range 3.9–41.3 | 12.2 (6.1) Range 4.0–28.0 | <0.001 |
χ2 test was used for all categorical variables except Fisher’s exact test that was used for inpatient length of stay.
Mann-Whitney U tests run for all continous variables.
CCFP-EM, Canadian College of Family Physicians-Emergency Medicine; CTAS, Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale; FRCPC, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada; Hb, haemoglobin; HCG, human chorionic gonadotropin.