Retrospective Cohort Study | Racial bias and reproducibility in pulse oximetry among medical and surgical inpatients.

Racial bias and reproducibility in pulse oximetry among medical and surgical inpatients in general care in the Veterans Health Administration 2013-19: multicenter, retrospective cohort study – The BMJ

News Release: Pulse oximeters missed low oxygen levels in more Black veterans than white veterans – University of Michigan

Related:

Racial and Ethnic Discrepancy in Pulse Oximetry and Delayed Identification of Treatment Eligibility Among Patients With COVID-19 – JAMA Internal Medicine

Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement – New England Journal of Medicine

Pulse Oximetry for Monitoring Patients with Covid-19 at Home — A Pragmatic, Randomized Trial – New England Journal of Medicine

Effectiveness and safety of pulse oximetry in remote patient monitoring of patients with COVID-19: a systematic review – The Lancet Digital Health

FDA issues alert on ‘limitations’ of pulse oximeters, without explicit mention of racial bias – STAT

Pulse Oximeter Accuracy and Limitations: FDA Safety Communication – U.S. Food & Drug Administration

Commentary on Twitter

New research found that for individuals in general (medical and surgical) care in hospital, occult hypoxemia was more common for black patients than for white patients https://t.co/DrNlaIE7ho

— The BMJ (@bmj_latest) July 6, 2022