Context:Professional society guidelines are evidence-based recommendations intended to promote standardized care and improve health outcomes. In the context of increased recognition of the role racism has played in shaping medical practices, many healthcare researchers and practitioners have critiqued existing guidelines, particularly those that include race-based recommendations. These critiques question how implicit-and sometimes explicit-racism has influenced both the evidence that guidelines are based on and the interpretation of that evidence.
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