Getting rid of bias in clinical calculators isn’t as simple as taking race out of the equation
Getting rid of bias in clinical calculators isn't as simple as taking race out of the equation.
Racial bias is everywhere in medicine, including the calculators doctors commonly use to predict a patient’s risk of disease and inform their treatment. A growing movement is encouraging medical specialties and hospitals to reconsider the use of race in those tools.
But a new study shows that removing bias isn’t as simple as taking race out of the equation.
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