Researchers studied responses gathered from 21,365 patients, aged 18 years and older, as part of the U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey project between 2002 and 2008.
According to the study, the gender of the respondents’ usual healthcare providers did not affect total expenditures, prescription expenditures, number of office visits or mortality.
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