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    Wright, Joseph L; Davis, Wendy S; Joseph, Madeline M; Ellison, Angela M; Heard-Garris, Nia J; Johnson, Tiffani L

    Pediatrics (Evanston), 07/2022, Volume: 150, Issue: 1
    Journal Article

    Race-based medicine has been pervasively interwoven into the fabric of health care delivery in the United States for more than 400 years. Race is a historically derived social construct that has no place as a biologic proxy. In addition to valid measures of social determinants of health, the effects of racism require consideration in clinical decision-making tools in ways that are evidence informed and not inappropriately conflated with the limiting phenotype of race categorization. This policy statement addresses the elimination of race-based medicine as part of a broader commitment to dismantle the structural and systemic inequities that lead to racial health disparities.