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NYC Health + Hospitals ceases two race-based clinical assessments in new initiative


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NYC Health + Hospitals is putting a stop to a pair of diagnostic tests that use race-based calculations as part of a new Medical Eracism initiative, which seeks to eliminate biased, race-based assessments used for decades in hospitals and clinics across the country.
These assessments influence medical decisions that have been found to negatively impact the quality of care received by patients of color, the public healthcare system said.
The system announced it has already eliminated two common diagnostic tests for kidney disease and vaginal birth after a cesarean delivery that have embedded race-based calculations for severity of illness and risk, and can lead to implicit biases and errors in diagnosis and treatment. ....

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