NATURE: Online Database of Clinical Algorithms with Race and Ethnicity

March 2025

An excellent overview of the issues surrounding the role of race in clinical decision-making tools and progress to date, including access to a state-of-the-field public database of clinical tools that use race and ethnicity as assessment factors.

From the abstract:

[Researchers] identified 42 risk calculators that use race and ethnicity as predictors, five laboratory test results with reference ranges that differed based on race and ethnicity, one therapy recommendation based on race and ethnicity, 15 medications with race- and ethnicity-based initiation and monitoring guidelines, and five medical devices with differential racial and ethnic performances. Information on these clinical algorithms is freely available at https://www.clinical-algorithms-with-race-and-ethnicity.org/. This resource aims to raise awareness about the use of race and ethnicity in clinical algorithms and track progress toward eliminating their inappropriate use. The database is actively updated to include clinical algorithms that were missed and additional characteristics of these algorithms.