Table 2.

Occult Hypoxemia Prevalence by Patient Race or Ethnicity

	N	Prevalence, % (95% CI)	95% prediction interval
Patients described as Black or African American
Patients (k = 9)	40,751	9.5 (4.7 to 18.3)	1.0 to 52.3
Sensitivity analysis (k = 7)	38,923	10.0 (4.4 to 21.1)	1.0 to 55.8
Paired observations (k = 13)	111,779	6.0 (3.9 to 9.3)	1.1 to 26.9
Patients described as Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, multiracial, or other race or ethnicity
Patients (k = 8)*	39,336	8.9 (4.0 to 18.4)	0.8 to 54.5
Sensitivity analysis (k = 6)†	35,579	11.1 (4.5 to 24.7)	0.9 to 62.0
Paired observations (k = 8)‡	202,253	3.4 (1.4 to 8.1)	0.2 to 34.6
Patients described as White or Caucasian
Patients (k = 8)	127,377	6.4 (3.3 to 11.8)	0.9 to 33.9
Sensitivity analysis (k = 6)	119,419	7.3 (3.6 to 14.2)	1.1 to 35.6
Paired observations (k = 13)	418,473	2.5 (1.5 to 4.3)	0.3 to 16.9

k number of studies

^*Eight studies reporting 19 prevalence estimates

^†Six studies reporting 15 prevalence estimates

^‡Eight studies reporting 20 prevalence estimates