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 ...

After clinical algorithms that use race as a variable came under Over the last five years, health systems, medical societies, and their clinicians have been working to unravel the role of race in ...

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 ...

These calculations are called clinical algorithms. MICHELLE MORSE: A clinical algorithm is a tool that clinicians would use to really best understand their patient's specific diagnosis or treatment.

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 ...