Improving Racial Equity in the Veterans Health Administration Care Assessment Needs Risk Score

Volume: 56, Issue: S2, Pages: 87 - 87
Published: Sep 1, 2021
Abstract
Research Objective The VA computes the Care Assessment Needs (CAN) score weekly for over 5 million Veterans to predict risk of one-year mortality and to improve resource allocation to high-risk Veterans. Motivated by evidence of unfair predictive algorithms in other settings, our objective was to examined the CAN score for racial unfairness. Study Design We constructed a cross-sectional cohort of Veterans who were alive and had at least one...
Paper Details
Title
Improving Racial Equity in the Veterans Health Administration Care Assessment Needs Risk Score
Published Date
Sep 1, 2021
Volume
56
Issue
S2
Pages
87 - 87
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