Evaluating Algorithmic Bias in 30-Day Hospital Readmission Models: Retrospective Analysis

• Main Authors: H Echo Wang (Author), Jonathan P Weiner (Author), Suchi Saria (Author), Hadi Kharrazi (Author)
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• Udgivet: JMIR Publications, 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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BackgroundThe adoption of predictive algorithms in health care comes with the potential for algorithmic bias, which could exacerbate existing disparities. Fairness metrics have been proposed to measure algorithmic bias, but their application to real-world tasks is limited. ObjectiveThis study aims t...