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

  • Written by Anirban Basu, Professor of Health Economics, University of Washington
imageAn increasing number of health care decisions rely on information from algorithms.Tom Werner/Digital Vision via Getty Images

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in predictive algorithms for...

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