STAT

Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change?

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 ...
Yahoo

Should the medical world reconsider the use of race in medical algorithms?

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awarded more than $10 million in grant money to five medical organizations last month to study and address the “potentially dangerous” consequences of race misuse ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

New Report Calls for Changes to How Biomedical Research Uses Race and Ethnicity

WASHINGTON — Biomedical researchers should change the way they use race and ethnicity in their research, says a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report, calling on ...
The Conversation

Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities – it depends on what doctors use them for

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 ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry as Population Descriptors in Genomics Research

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a study to review and assess existing methodologies, benefits, and challenges in the use of ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Rate of Respiratory Impairments in Black Patients Increases When PFTs Use Race-Neutral Reference Equations

Using race-neutral rather than race and ethnicity-specific reference equations to interpret pulmonary function tests (PFTs) increased the number of Black individuals considered to have respiratory ...