Every day, physicians use clinical algorithms to make decisions about the patients in their exam rooms. To help weigh a patient’s surgical risk or likelihood of disease, they factor in attributes such ...

Automated clinical algorithms promise to transform primary care. Clinical algorithms specify the steps of a clinical process, leading from inputs such as a patient’s diagnosis to outputs such as ...

Aim To evaluate the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of three primary to secondary care referral strategies. Method Thirty two primary care dental practitioners (GDPs) were randomly allocated one ...

Clinician-scientists in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai developed a clinical algorithm that, for the first time, distinguishes between treatable sudden cardiac arrest and untreatable forms ...

As the use of artificial intelligence has spread rapidly throughout the US health care system, concerns have been raised about racial and ethnic biases built into the algorithms that often guide ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...