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ReviewAnnual review of public health2025

Racial Bias in Clinical and Population Health Algorithms: A Critical Review of Current Debates.

Madison Coots, Kristin A Linn, Sharad Goel, Amol S Navathe, Ravi B Parikh

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Review in Annual review of public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Measuring disparate impact in human and machine decisions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  13. Multi-Adversarial Debiasing in Clinical Artificial Intelligence.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Madison CootsHarvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Kristin A LinnThe Parity Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sharad GoelHarvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Amol S NavatheThe Parity Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Ravi B ParikhSchool of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; email: ravi.bharat.parikh@emory.edu.

Funding

Human-Machine Collaborations to Improve Prognosis and Clinical Decision-Making in Advanced CancerK08CA263541 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI PARIKH, RAVI BHARAT · 2021 to 2025
$1.2M
HSRD VA I01 HX003371NCI NIH HHS K08 CA263541
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among health care researchers, there is increasing debate over how best to assess and ensure the fairness of algorithms used for clinical decision support and population health, particularly concerning potential racial bias. Here we first distill concerns over the fairness of health care algorithms into four broad categories: (

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AlgorithmsPopulation HealthRacismHumansalgorithmsbiasequityfairnesshealth carerace

Identifiers

PMID39626231
PMCPMC12934203

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