BiasMedium
Kidney Testing Method Allegedly Underestimated Risk of Black Patients
- Occurred
- Mar 16, 1999
- Published
- Oct 15, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Decades-long use of the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) method to test kidney function which considers race has been criticized by physicians and medical students for its racist history and inaccuracy against Black patients.
Developers
- Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration
Deployers
- Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration
Harmed parties
- Black patients
- African-American patients
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Medical algorithm bias against Black patients causing inaccurate health assessments.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8