Patients' Perspectives on Race and the Use of Race-Based Algorithms in Clinical Decision-Making: a Qualitative Study.

Insa Marie SchmidtMerav ShohetMariana SerranoPranav YadatiHanni Menn-JosephyTitilayo IloriNwamaka D EneanyaEmily C Cleveland ManchandaSushrut S Waikar

Published in: Journal of general internal medicine (2023)

Our findings suggest that most patients are unaware of how race has been used to make risk assessments and guide clinical care. Further research on patients' perspectives is needed to inform the development of anti-racist policies and regulatory agendas as we move forward to combat systemic racism in medicine.

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