TY - JOUR
T1 - Considerations of sex as a binary variable in clinical algorithms
AU - Mohottige, Dinushika
AU - Farouk, Samira
AU - Poteat, Tonia
AU - Radix, Asa
AU - Witchel, Selma Feldman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Limited 2024.
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - Clinical algorithms that are used to guide medical decision-making often include sex as a variable. However, binary considerations of sex and/or gender might introduce bias due to potentially inaccurate assumptions about sex and gender-specific physiology, hormones and exposures. An equity-focused approach to sex and gender is essential when using clinical algorithms to ensure health equity across populations.
AB - Clinical algorithms that are used to guide medical decision-making often include sex as a variable. However, binary considerations of sex and/or gender might introduce bias due to potentially inaccurate assumptions about sex and gender-specific physiology, hormones and exposures. An equity-focused approach to sex and gender is essential when using clinical algorithms to ensure health equity across populations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85191078443&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41581-024-00840-2
DO - 10.1038/s41581-024-00840-2
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85191078443
SN - 1759-5061
VL - 20
SP - 347
EP - 348
JO - Nature Reviews Nephrology
JF - Nature Reviews Nephrology
IS - 6
ER -