Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inappropriately factoring race into clinical decisions risks worse care for patients from underrepresented ...
This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...
With an approaching federal deadline, healthcare and legal experts have developed a framework for evaluating the use of AI-powered algorithms. As AI, clinical algorithms and predictive analytics ...
Every day, physicians use clinical algorithms to make decisions about the patients in their exam rooms. To help weigh a patient’s surgical risk or likelihood of disease, they factor in attributes such ...
Anirban Basu received funding support from a consortium of ten biomedical companies to the University of Washington through an unrestricted gift. Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that ...
Disproven conceptions of race may affect clinical decision-making and treatment in several ways and have implications on patient safety and outcomes, according to a Dec. 9 Kaiser Family Foundation ...
New York City announced a recent effort to end race adjustments in clinical algorithms used by the city's hospitals. Experts say these adjustments perpetuate racist assumptions in healthcare and can ...
Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...
Clinicians should consider whether a race correction will relieve or exacerbate inequities, according to editorialists. Physicians often use algorithms incorporating race for risk assessment, ...