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Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement

Journal

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 383, Issue 25, Pages 2477-2478

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MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2029240

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  1. National Institutes of Health [K01 HL136687, R01 LM013325, R01 HL144599, K12 HL138039, K23 HL140165]
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs [VA HSRD IIR 17-045]

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The question of whether pulse oximetry measurements vary according to race has not been adequately studied, despite the wide use of this measure in clinical care. In this analysis, Black patients who had hypoxemia were more likely to have a normal pulse oximetry reading than were White patients.

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