ReviewAnnual review of medicine2023
Origins of Racial and Ethnic Bias in Pulmonary Technologies.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The confounding effects of skin colour in photoacoustic imaging.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Humanizing pulmonary care in the era of acoustic artificial intelligence: toward global health equity.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Accuracy and Interpretation of Transcutaneous Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in Critically Ill Children.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2024Observational
- Considerations for Use of Blood-Based Biomarkers in Epidemiologic Dementia Research.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Validation of a Smart Ring Oximeter in Individuals With Dark Skin Pigment.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2023Article
- Data sharing in the context of community-engaged research partnerships.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Z60.5/(En)Coded.Health equity · 2023Article
- Pulse Oximetry and Arterial Blood Gas Agreement in an Outpatient Black Lung Clinic: Implications for Clinical Assessment and Decision Making.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
Understanding how biases originate in medical technologies and developing safeguards to identify, mitigate, and remove their harms are essential to ensuring equal performance in all individuals. Drawing upon examples from pulmonary medicine, this article describes how bias can be introduced in the physical aspects of the technology design, via unrepresentative data, or by conflation of biological with social determinants of health. It then can be perpetuated by inadequate evaluation and regulatory standards. Research demonstrates that pulse oximeters perform differently depending on patient race and ethnicity. Pulmonary function testing and algorithms used to predict healthcare needs are two additional examples of medical technologies with racial and ethnic biases that may perpetuate health disparities.
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