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Hidden in Plain Sight—Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms
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EthnicityRacial Health EquityHealth Care DisparityPatient SelectionGenetic EpidemiologyPopulation Health SciencesHealth DisparitiesRacial DisparitiesGenetic MedicineClinical GeneticsRaceHuman PhenotypesHuman VariationClinical PopulationRacial GroupPublic HealthRacismMedical Error PreventionPopulation GeneticsGenomic MedicineClinical DataEpidemiologyRace CorrectionMedicineClinical AlgorithmsClinical Decision Support SystemHealth InformaticsPublic Health Genetics
(Abstracted from N Engl J Med 2020;383(9):874–882) The role of race and ethnicity in medicine continues to be debated. On one side, categories of race and ethnicity are seen as clinically useful because they reflect population genetics.