Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change?

Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change?
Stat email and article; by Katie Palmer, Usha Lee McFarling; 9/3/24
Doctors use clinical algorithms every day to make decisions about the care they provide to patients. This math determines things like our surgical risk or likelihood of disease using factors such as blood pressure, age, weight, surgical history, and, often, our race. But one of these is not quite like the others — for years, clinicians have pushed back against the use of race in clinical algorithms.
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