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
An increasing number of health care decisions rely on information from algorithms.Tom Werner/Digital Vision via Getty ImagesHealth 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...
