Race unexplored in most pediatric clinical care guidelines, review finds

Race and ethnicity were unexplored in most American pediatric clinical practice guidelines published in the last 5 years, according to the results of a systematic review published in JAMA Pediatrics.
Courtney A. Gilliam, MD, a member of the division of hospital medicine in the department of pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a co-author of the review, said in a Healio interview that the use of race in clinical practice guidelines has the potential to positively or negatively affect structural racism and health inequities.
“We knew that medicine has a very long history of

Race and ethnicity were unexplored in most American pediatric clinical practice guidelines published in the last 5 years, according to the results of a systematic review published in JAMA Pediatrics.
Courtney A. Gilliam, MD, a member of the division of hospital medicine in the department of pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a co-author of the review, said in a Healio interview that the use of race in clinical practice guidelines has the potential to positively or negatively affect structural racism and health inequities.
“We knew that medicine has a very long history of