An algorithm that takes into account factors including a patient's ethnicity to help determine where they should be placed on a surgery waitlist sparks debate in New Zealand.
PostedSome surgeons are ethically opposed to using ethnicity as a factor in determining where someone is placed on a waitlist.abc.net.au/news/new-zeland-surgery-waitlist-algorithm/102512912An algorithm that takes into account how long patients have been on the waitlist, where they live, their financial circumstances, and their ethnicity to help determine where they should be placed on a surgery waitlist has raised debate in New Zealand this week.
The algorithm gives Indigenous Māori and Pacific Island patients a higher priority on the list, pushing down white New Zealanders and other ethnicities with the idea to balance out longstanding inequities in the public system.
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