Beyond Diagnostics - Removing Race from Lung-Function Test Interpretation

N Engl J Med. 2024 Jun 13;390(22):2122-2123. doi: 10.1056/NEJMe2403770. Epub 2024 May 19.

Authors

Meredith McCormack¹, David A Kaminsky¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (M.M.); and the Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington (D.A.K.).

PMID: 38767237
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe2403770

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Antiracism*
Black People
Black or African American
Health Equity*
Humans
Lung Diseases* / diagnosis
Lung Diseases* / ethnology
Lung* / diagnostic imaging
Lung* / physiology
Lung* / physiopathology
Race Factors
Racism*
Reference Values
Respiratory Function Tests*
United Kingdom
United States
White People