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Clinical medicine

adjusting clinical algorithms or test thresholds by a patient's race, criticized for embedding inequity in care decisions.

In clinical medicine, race correction refers to adjusting clinical algorithms or test thresholds by a patient's race, criticized for embedding inequity in care decisions. This meaning comes from Vyas (2020) in New England Journal of Medicine.[1]

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Vyas, D. A., Eisenstein, L. G., & Jones, D. S. (2020). Hidden in Plain Sight: Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms. New England Journal of Medicine, 383(9), 874-882. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmms2004740

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