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. P ediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough.

Usha Lee McFarling, a veteran science reporter, has written for STAT since 2015 and covers health disparities. You can reach Usha on Signal at usha.22. Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical ...

More information: Katherine E. Goodman et al, FAIRS — A Framework for Evaluating the Inclusion of Sex in Clinical Algorithms, New England Journal of Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2411331 ...

In fact, none of the three clinical algorithms they point to involving measuring kidney function, lung function, or which children may have a urinary tract infection (UTI) are race-based. All of them ...

The regional coalition, which convenes under Independence Blue Cross, has so far removed race from clinical algorithms used in kidney function assessment, lung function testing, a calculator that ...

More information: Anna Zink et al, Race adjustments in clinical algorithms can help correct for racial disparities in data quality, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10. ...

The algorithm then identifies relevant clinical trials from ClinicalTrials.gov for which a patient is eligible and excludes trials for which they are ineligible. TrialGPT then explains how the ...

But there's a wide world of other calculators and algorithms used to make decisions about patients every day — many of which As deadline looms, health systems rush to ensure clinical algorithms ...

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