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Ethnic bias in data linkage

24 May 2021

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In The Lancet Digital Health, Hannah Knight and colleagues1Knight HE Deeny SR Dreyer K et al.Challenging racism in the use of health data.Lancet Digit Health. 2021; 3: e144-e146Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (14) Google Scholar highlight stages in the data science pipeline that are affected by and lead to racism. Data linkage is a further stage in which ethnic bias can be encoded into datasets....

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PMID: 34045000
DOI: 10.1016/s2589-7500(21)00081-9

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