ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Using measures of race to make clinical predictions: Decision making, patient health, and fairness.
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- The limits of fair medical imaging AI in real-world generalization.Nature medicine · 2024Article
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- Medical Artificial Intelligence and Human Values.The New England journal of medicine · 2024Review
- Risk scores, label bias, and everything but the kitchen sink.Science advances · 2024Article
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Abstract
The use of race measures in clinical prediction models is contentious. We seek to inform the discourse by evaluating the inclusion of race in probabilistic predictions of illness that support clinical decision making. Adopting a static utilitarian framework to formalize social welfare, we show that patients of all races benefit when clinical decisions are jointly guided by patient race and other observable covariates. Similar conclusions emerge when the model is extended to a two-period setting where prevention activities target systemic drivers of disease. We also discuss non-utilitarian concepts that have been proposed to guide allocation of health care resources.
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