Black or 'other'? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health.

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Black or 'other'? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health.

May 5, 2021

Smith J, Spodak C. CNN. April 25, 2021.

Race-adjusted decision making tools perpetuate the potential for diagnostic error and care delay. This article examines race correction as a form of bias in health care and discusses efforts to reduce the use of race-adjusted algorithms.

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