{"id":61801,"date":"2021-10-10T23:25:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61801"},"modified":"2021-10-10T23:25:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:25:12","slug":"ending-the-use-of-race-based-multipliers-in-these-and-dozens-of-other-calculators-will-take-more-than-a-task-force-in-one-medical-specialty-itll-need-researchers-to-not-just-believe-but-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61801","title":{"rendered":"Ending the use of race-based multipliers in these and dozens of other calculators will take more than a task force in one medical specialty. It\u2019ll need researchers to not just believe, but act on the knowledge that race is not biology&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ending the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Race_adjustment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race-based multipliers<\/a> in these and dozens of other calculators will take more than a task force in one medical specialty. It\u2019ll need researchers to not just believe, but act on the knowledge that race is not biology, and for the biomedical research enterprise to implement clearer standards for how these calculators are used. Otherwise, it\u2019s just a matter of time before another tool that wrongly uses race to make decisions about patients\u2019 bodies trickles into clinical care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jyoti Madhusoodanan, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Very Little Is Keeping Doctors From Using Racist Health Formulas<\/a>,\u201d <em>Wired<\/em>, October 8, 2021. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/health-race-medicine-risk-disparties\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ending the use of race-based multipliers in these and dozens of other calculators will take more than a task force in one medical specialty. It\u2019ll need researchers to not just believe, but act on the knowledge that race is not biology, and for the biomedical research enterprise to implement clearer standards for how these calculators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31714,31740,32111],"class_list":["post-61801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-jyoti-madhusoodanan","tag-race-correction","tag-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61802,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61801\/revisions\/61802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}