Hidden in Plain Sight - Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (D.A.V.), and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (D.S.J.) - both in Boston, the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (D.S.J.), and the Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York (L.G.E.).

Darshali A Vyas et al. N Engl J Med. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 27;383(9):874-882.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMms2004740. Epub 2020 Jun 17.

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (D.A.V.), and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (D.S.J.) - both in Boston, the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (D.S.J.), and the Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York (L.G.E.).

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Racial disparities, FRAX, and the care of patients with osteoporosis.
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