Algorithmic fairness in artificial intelligence for medicine and healthcare

RJ Chen, JJ Wang, DFK Williamson, TY Chen… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
In healthcare, the development and deployment of insufficiently fair systems of artificial
intelligence (AI) can undermine the delivery of equitable care. Assessments of AI models …

Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

L Kachuri, N Chatterjee, J Hirbo, DJ Schaid… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) summarize the genetic predisposition of a complex human trait
or disease and may become a valuable tool for advancing precision medicine. However …

Updated guidance on the reporting of race and ethnicity in medical and science journals

A Flanagin, T Frey, SL Christiansen… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
The goal of this guidance is to provide recommendations and suggestions that encourage
fairness, equity, consistency, and clarity in use and reporting of race and ethnicity in medical …

American Cancer Society's report on the status of cancer disparities in the United States, 2021

F Islami, CE Guerra, A Minihan… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this report, the authors provide comprehensive and up‐to‐date US data on disparities in
cancer occurrence, major risk factors, and access to and utilization of preventive measures …

Responsible use of polygenic risk scores in the clinic: potential benefits, risks and gaps

Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) aggregate the many small effects of alleles across the human
genome to estimate the risk of a disease or disease-related trait for an individual. The …

Race and ethnicity in pulmonary function test interpretation: an official American Thoracic Society statement

NR Bhakta, C Bime, DA Kaminsky… - American journal of …, 2023 - atsjournals.org
Current American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards promote the use of race and ethnicity-
specific reference equations for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation. There is rising …

Race, genetic ancestry, and estimating kidney function in CKD

C Hsu, W Yang, RV Parikh, AH Anderson… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The inclusion of race in equations to estimate the glomerular filtration rate
(GFR) has become controversial. Alternative equations that can be used to achieve similar …

Considering biased data as informative artifacts in AI-assisted health care

K Ferryman, M Mackintosh… - New England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Considering Biased Data as Informative Artifacts in AI-Assisted Health Care | New England
Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine homepage …

The reporting of race and ethnicity in medical and science journals: comments invited

A Flanagin, T Frey, SL Christiansen, H Bauchner - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
For many years and increasingly in the last year, JAMA and the JAMA Network journals
have published many important articles addressing disparities and racism in medical …

Racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in the United States, 2013 to 2018

R Aggarwal, N Chiu, RK Wadhera, AE Moran… - …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
We evaluated the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension (defined as
a systolic blood pressure [BP])≥ 140 mm Hg, diastolic BP≥ 90 mm Hg, or a self-reported …