Black Kidney Function Matters: Use or Misuse of Race?

Black Kidney Function Matters: Use or Misuse of Race?

This Viewpoint discusses the practice of using patient race as a variable in algorithms to determine kidney function and suggests that estimating tools be developed that are equally precise but exclude race as a factor.

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2020-08, Vol.324 (8), p.737-738
1. Verfasser: Powe, Neil R
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Algorithms
Kidneys
Race
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Zusammenfassung:This Viewpoint discusses the practice of using patient race as a variable in algorithms to determine kidney function and suggests that estimating tools be developed that are equally precise but exclude race as a factor.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2020.13378