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 …

Intelligent diagnosis processes rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to provide
possible diagnoses by analyzing patient data and medical information. To make accurate …

Race-based medicine has been pervasively interwoven into the fabric of health care
delivery in the United States for more than 400 years. Race is a historically derived social …

Rationale: The use of self-reported race and ethnicity to interpret lung function
measurements has historically assumed that the observed differences in lung function …

Background Calls have been made to discontinue the routine use of race and ethnicity in
medicine. Specific to respiratory medicine, the use of race-and ethnicity-specific reference …

Rationale: African American individuals have worse outcomes in chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). Objectives: To assess whether race-specific approaches for …

Importance Race and ethnicity are routinely used to inform pulmonary function test (PFT)
interpretation. However, there is no biological justification for such use, and it may reinforce …

Rationale: Normal values for FEV1 and FVC are currently calculated using cross-sectional
reference equations that include terms for race/ethnicity, an approach that may reinforce …

Purpose We examined the validity of the Childhood Asthma Control Test (C‐ACT) and
identified recommended thresholds for uncontrolled asthma in children from varying …

Race Correction and the X-Ray Machine — The Controversy over Increased Radiation Doses
for Black Americans in 1968 | New England Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New …