Patients missed out on treatments because of the gap.
Blood oxygen monitors said that hospitalized Asian, Black, and Hispanic COVID-19 patients had higher blood oxygen levels than they actually did, according to a new study. Oxygen levels are an important indicator of how serious someone’s case of COVID-19 is and what medications they’re eligible for — and that overestimation meant that it took longer for Black and Hispanic patients to get necessary treatment.
In a larger group of over 6,600 patients, the research team found 1,903 patients where a model showed that their oxygen levels would have dropped before the pulse oximeter showed it had. In that group, Black and Hispanic patients were more likely to have had delays in receiving treatments like remdesivir or dexamethasone .
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