{"id":62392,"date":"2021-11-27T23:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62392"},"modified":"2021-11-29T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T21:24:13","slug":"university-of-maryland-medical-system-drops-race-based-algorithm-officials-say-harms-black-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62392","title":{"rendered":"University of Maryland Medical System drops race-based algorithm officials say harms Black patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of Maryland Medical System drops race-based algorithm officials say harms Black patients<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2021-11-17<\/p>\n

Ovetta Wiggins<\/strong><\/a>, Local reporter covering Maryland state politics<\/p>\n

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Uchenna Ndubisi, who is undergoing dialysis treatment, was pleased to learn that her hospital is getting rid of a race-based algorithm for a kidney diagnostic test. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>
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Uchenna Ndubisi was blown away when she first noticed the \u201cAfrican American\u201d notation on a diagnostic test designed to show doctors how well her kidneys are working.<\/p>\n

What did her race have to do with the toll lupus<\/a> was taking on her body? The answer left her more resigned than surprised: an equation used to estimate how well a person\u2019s organs filter waste included a decades-old racist assumption about Black bodies.<\/p>\n

In this case, clinicians assumed Ndubisi had more muscle mass than a White patient would. For many Black kidney patients, like Ndubisi, the equation overestimates how well their kidneys are functioning, leading to the loss of critical time for necessary treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s being Black in America<\/a>,\u201d said Ndubisi, 35, who lives in Prince George\u2019s County<\/a>. \u201cAnother reminder .\u2009.\u2009. that there\u2019s hurdles into health care for African Americans in this country.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Maryland Medical System and the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced Wednesday that they will stop using the race-based diagnostic equation to estimate kidney function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,26,20],"tags":[31979,5972,32498,32495,32546,31740,32500,32499,2875,32497,1586,32496,2581],"class_list":["post-62392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-kidney-disease","tag-maryland","tag-mohan-suntha","tag-ovetta-wiggins","tag-paul-palevsky","tag-race-correction","tag-stephen-seliger","tag-susan-e-quaggin","tag-the-washington-post","tag-uchenna-ndubisi","tag-university-of-maryland","tag-university-of-maryland-school-of-medicine","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62392","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=62392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62428,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62392\/revisions\/62428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}