Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement

By M. Sjoding, Robert P. Dickson, T. Iwashyna, S. Gay, T. Valley. New England Journal of Medicine, 2020

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Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry 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 t...

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery

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• Bias in medical AI: Implications for clinical decision-making (2024, background): “Imbalanced samples are a form of bias that the medical community has historically and still currently struggles to address [42].”
• Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2023 Report: GOLD Executive Summary (2023, neutral): “Pulse oximetry is not as accurate as arterial blood gas measurement (139) and, in particular, may overestimate blood oxygen content among individuals with darker skin tones (140).”