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Medicine must stop using race and ethnicity to interpret test results

Medicine must stop using race and ethnicity to interpret test results

10 November 2021

Relying on race and ethnicity when interpreting medical test results can harm patients. It must stop, say Layal Liverpool and Jennifer Tsai

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