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September 17, 2025Statistics in MedicineOpen Access

What Is Fair? Defining Fairness in Machine Learning for Health

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JGJianhui GaoUniversity of TorontoBCBenson ChouUniversity of TorontoZMZachary R. McCawUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Implication

This review examines how fairness impacts ML models in health, highlighting implications for clinical decision-making and health disparities.

Key Points

  • Fairness in machine learning impacts clinical decision-making and can prevent existing health disparities.
  • The review explores multiple fairness notions across group, individual, and causal-based frameworks.
  • Future research opportunities and challenges for operationalizing fairness in health-focused applications are discussed.
  • Concern over unfair decision-making in ML models highlights the need for equitable health applications.

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Gao et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4605931b076d99fa5ff54https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.70234
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