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    In August 2022 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking prohibiting covered entities, which include health care providers and health plans, from discriminating against individuals when using clinical algorithms in decision making. However, HHS did not provide specific guidelines on how covered entities should prevent discrimination. We conducted a scoping review of literature published during the period 2011–22 to identify health care applications, frameworks, reviews and perspectives, and assessment tools that identify and mitigate bias in clinical algorithms, with a specific focus on racial and ethnic bias. Our scoping review encompassed 109 articles comprising 45 empirical health care applications that included tools tested in health care settings, 16 frameworks, and 48 reviews and perspectives. We identified a wide range of technical, operational, and systemwide bias mitigation strategies for clinical algorithms, but there was no cons

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    • While @HHSgov doesn’t provide specific guidelines on how clinical entities should prevent #discrimination in clinical algorithms, a new paper from @mpc_24 of @DukeU conducts a lit review on mitigating bias and advancing #healthequity in algorithm use. https://t.co/kZP6czwG8y https://t.co/EwgbKMCKIz

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    Patients are the biggest offenders, but many also encounter racism from colleagues and supervisors.

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    • Nearly 8 in 10 nurses say they have seen or experienced #racism and #discrimination from patients. The vast majority of nurses (89%) who have encountered or witnessed racism and discrimination say it has affected their well-being. https://t.co/xWnU7J4haS

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    Physicians have created a survey for health care workers to assess experiences with microaggressions, sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination at work, school, in patient environments or during interactions with patients’ families.The survey, led by Shikha Jain, MD, FACP, an associate professor of medicine with tenure in the division of hematology, oncology and cell therapy at the

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    • .@ShikhaJainMD and @WomansDoc are collecting survey responses from health care workers to create a resource on how to handle #discrimination at work and in school. The survey is open until the end of May. Link in story. https://t.co/Yg2mdZgYVi

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    Research Opportunities - 1 year(s) ago

    The latest opportunities for advancing endocrinology research

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    • The @NIH announced a new R01 that will support intervention research to address the impact of structural #racism and #discrimination (SRD) on minority health and health disparities. Learn more: https://t.co/ECfXXLRGsJ