Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms of the race-based equation for those who were still ...

Black patients with failing kidneys are receiving more transplants and spending less time on transplant waiting lists, after ...

This is Part 6 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. NEW YORK — One Brooklyn Health, a safety net hospital ...

For years, it was harder for Black patients to secure a coveted spot on the national kidney transplant waitlist because a clinical algorithm was making Black patients appear healthier than they were.

New U.S. policies are improving kidney transplant rates and reducing wait times for Black patients. Race-neutral formulas for ...

Thirteen health systems in Greater Philadelphia are working as a coalition to reevaluate what role race has played in tools and guidelines that doctors and nurses use to diagnose and treat patients.

For patients with the triad of chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension, the use of an electronic health record-based algorithm and intervention does not result in reduced ...