Health inequities and the inappropriate use of race in nephrology

ND Eneanya, LE Boulware, J Tsai, MA Bruce… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease is an important clinical condition beset with racial and ethnic
disparities that are associated with social inequities. Many medical schools and health …

Can evidence drive health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond?

K Bell, S White, A Diaz, P Bahria… - Journal of Public …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Using scoping review methods, we systematically searched multiple online databases for
publications in the first year of the pandemic that proposed pragmatic population or health …

A call to action for school psychology to address COVID-19 health disparities and advance social justice.

AL Sullivan, B Harris, FG Miller, LM Fallon… - School …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The health, economic, and social challenges associated with coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) present a range of threats to students' well-being, psychoeducational …

Simulation of New York city's ventilator allocation guideline during the spring 2020 COVID-19 surge

BC Walsh, J Zhu, Y Feng, KA Berkowitz… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The spring 2020 surge of COVID-19 unprecedentedly strained ventilator supply
in New York City, with many hospitals nearly exhausting available ventilators and …

Assessment of a crisis standards of care scoring system for resource prioritization and estimated excess mortality by race, ethnicity, and socially vulnerable area …

ED Riviello, T Dechen, AL O'Donoghue… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Crisis standards of care (CSOC) scores designed to allocate scarce resources
during the COVID-19 pandemic could exacerbate racial disparities in health care. Objective …

The potential impact of triage protocols on racial disparities in clinical outcomes among COVID-positive patients in a large academic healthcare system

S Roy, M Showstark, B Tolchin, N Kashyap, J Bonito… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact in the United States,
particularly for Black populations, and has heavily burdened the healthcare system …

The treatment of disability under crisis standards of care: an empirical and normative analysis of change over time during COVID-19

A Ne'eman, MA Stein, ZD Berger… - Journal of health …, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
Context: COVID-19 has prompted debates between bioethicists and disability activists about
Crisis Standards of Care plans (CSCs), triage protocols determining the allocation of scarce …

Structural injustice and dismantling racism in health and healthcare

R Essex, M Markowski, D Miller - Nursing Inquiry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Racism in health and healthcare has long been recognised as a structural issue. While there
has been growing research and a number of important initiatives that have come from …

Rationing, responsibility, and vaccination during COVID-19: a conceptual map

JK Park, B Davies - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, shortages of scarce healthcare resources consistently
presented significant moral and practical challenges. While the importance of vaccines as a …

Scarce Resource Allocations That Rely On Machine Learning Should Be Randomized

S Jain, K Creel, A Wilson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.08592, 2024 - arxiv.org
Contrary to traditional deterministic notions of algorithmic fairness, this paper argues that
fairly allocating scarce resources using machine learning often requires randomness. We …