Becker's Healthcare October 22, 2024
A coalition of health systems in the Philadelphia area said in an Oct. 21 news release that they will end the use of race adjustments in widely used clinical tools that guide patient care.
Five things to know:
- The Regional Coalition to Eliminate Race-Based Medicine stated that all member health systems have agreed to phase out race adjustments in clinical decision support tools used for lung, kidney and OB-GYN care.
- The coalition includes Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Doylestown (Pa.) Health; Grand View Health in Sellersville, Pa.; Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia; Jefferson Health in Philadelphia; Main Line Health in Radnor, Pa.; Nemours Children’s Health in Philadelphia; Penn Medicine in Philadelphia; Redeemer Health in Meadowbrook, Pa.; St. Christopher’s Hospital for...