Prevalence and phenotypic trajectories of hypoxaemia among hospitalised adults in Kenya: a single-centre, prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Global medical oxygen security is limited by knowledge gaps in hypoxaemia burden and oxygen access in low-income and middle-income countries. We examined the prevalence and phenotypic trajectories of hypoxaemia among hospitalised adults in Kenya, with a focus on chronic hypoxaemia.

Design

Single-centre, prospective cohort study.

Setting

National tertiary referral hospital in Eldoret, Kenya between September 2019 and April 2022.

Participants

Adults (age ≥18 years) admitted to general medicine wards.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Our primary outcome was proportion of patients who were hypoxaemic (oxygen saturation, SpO2 ≤88%) on admission. Secondary outcomes were proportion of patients with hypoxaemia on admission who had hypoxaemia reso

SUBMITTER: Navuluri N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10510888 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature