• DOI:10.1126/science.aax2342
Corpus ID: 204881868

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

@article{Obermeyer2019DissectingRB,
  title={Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations},
  author={Z. Obermeyer and B. Powers and C. Vogeli and S. Mullainathan},
  journal={Science},
  year={2019},
  volume={366},
  pages={447 - 453}
}

Z. Obermeyer, B. Powers, +1 author S. Mullainathan

Published 2019

Medicine

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Racial bias in health algorithms The U.S. health care system uses commercial algorithms to guide health decisions. Obermeyer et al. find evidence of racial bias in one widely used algorithm, such that Black patients assigned the same level of risk by the algorithm are sicker than White patients (see the Perspective by Benjamin). The authors estimated that this racial bias reduces the number of Black patients identified for extra care by more than half. Bias occurs because the algorithm uses… CONTINUE READING

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