Awareness of Racial and Ethnic Bias and Potential Solutions to Address Bias With Use of Health Care Algorithms.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Algorithms are commonly incorporated into health care decision tools used by health systems and payers and thus affect quality of care, access, and health outcomes. Some algorithms include a patient's race or ethnicity among their inputs and can lead clinicians and decision-makers to make choices that vary by race and potentially affect inequities.

Objective

To inform an evidence review on the use of race- and ethnicity-based algorithms in health care by gathering public and stakeholder perspectives about the repercussions of and efforts to address algorithm-related bias.

Design, setting, and participants

Qualitative methods were used to analyze responses. Responses were initially open coded and then consolidated to create a codebook, with themes and subthe

SUBMITTER: Jain A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10238944 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature