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Considerations for addressing bias in artificial intelligence for health equity
Health equity is a primary goal of healthcare stakeholders: patients and their advocacy groups, clinicians, other providers and their professional...
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Implications of Bias in Artificial Intelligence: Considerations for Cardiovascular Imaging
Purpose of ReviewBias in artificial intelligence (AI) models can result in unintended consequences. In cardiovascular imaging, biased AI models used...
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Simulation as an educational tool to teach emergency medicine residents about unconscious bias
Medical training embraces simulation-based education. One important topic that has recently been added to the simulation curriculum at the University...
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Weight Bias in Obstetrics
Purpose of ReviewOur goal is to describe the prevalence and harms of weight stigma and bias in obstetric care in order to challenge the current...
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Selection Bias in Health Research: Quantifying, Eliminating, or Exacerbating Health Disparities?
Purpose of ReviewTo summarize recent literature on selection bias in disparities research addressing either descriptive or causal questions, with...
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Automating risk of bias assessment in systematic reviews: a real-time mixed methods comparison of human researchers to a machine learning system
BackgroundMachine learning and automation are increasingly used to make the evidence synthesis process faster and more responsive to policymakers’...
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Association between cancer and dementia risk in the UK Biobank: evidence of diagnostic bias
Epidemiological studies have identified an inverse association between cancer and dementia. Underlying methodological biases have been postulated,...
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Methodological review of NMA bias concepts provides groundwork for the development of a list of concepts for potential inclusion in a new risk of bias tool for network meta-analysis (RoB NMA Tool)
IntroductionNetwork meta-analyses (NMAs) have gained popularity and grown in number due to their ability to provide estimates of the comparative...
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Prolonged indwelling catheter time after RARP does not lead to follow-up surgery
BackgroundIndwelling catheterization following radical prostatectomy is used to aid healing and urinary drainage. While early removal is well...
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The Perils of Misinterpreting and Misusing “Publication Bias” in Meta-analyses: An Education Review on Funnel Plot-Based Methods
Publication bias refers to a systematic deviation from the truth in the results of a meta-analysis due to the higher likelihood for published studies...
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When gold standards are not so golden: prevalence bias in randomized trials on endoscopic colorectal cancer screening
Randomized trials on the effectiveness of screening endoscopy in reducing colorectal cancer (CRC) risk have reported statistically significant, but...
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Assessment of skin pigmentation-related bias in pulse oximetry readings among adults
PurposeRecent reports that pulse oximeters may overestimate oxygen saturation in individuals with darker skin pigmentation have prompted concerns...
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Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography does not lead to decreased postoperative mortality but with increased time to surgery and length of stay in Chinese geriatric hip fracture patients
PurposeThe present study aimed to investigate the influence of preoperative TTE on postoperative short-term mortality, surgery delay, as well as...
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A mixed methods study of perceptions of bias among neonatal intensive care unit staff
BackgroundInequity in neonatology may be potentiated within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) by the effects of bias. Addressing bias can lead to...
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Assessing risk of bias in the meta-analysis of round 1 of the Health Care Innovation Awards
BackgroundSystematic reviews of observational studies can be affected by biases that lead to under- or over-estimates of true intervention effects....
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Publication Bias in Upper Gastrointestinal Oncology Clinical Trials
PurposeEvidence-based medicine requires evaluation of the medical literature to guide clinical reasoning and treatment recommendations. The presence...
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Public and occupational health risks related to lead exposure updated according to present-day blood lead levels
Lead is an environmental hazard that should be addressed worldwide. Over time, human lead exposure in the western world has decreased drastically to...
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Sex bias in immune response: it is time to include the sex variable in studies of autoimmune rheumatic diseases
Healthy females and males differ in their immune cell composition and function and females generally mount stronger immune response than males and...
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Attention Bias and Anxiety: The Moderating Effect of Sociocultural Variables in Rural Latinx Youth
Attention bias confers risk for anxiety development, however, the influence of sociodemographic variables on the relationship between attention bias...
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Human visual explanations mitigate bias in AI-based assessment of surgeon skills
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can now reliably assess surgeon skills through videos of intraoperative surgical activity. With such systems...
