Aggregate Evidence Quality | Grade D |
Benefits | Identification of hypoxemia |
Risks, harm, cost | Increased costs due to monitoring over time and the use of hospital resources |
False-positive results may lead to subsequent testing and hospitalization | |
False reassurance from negative test results | |
Benefit-harm assessment | The potential benefit of detecting hypoxemia outweighs the harm of cost and false results |
Intentional vagueness | Duration of time to monitor patients with continuous pulse oximetry and the number and frequency of serial observations may vary |
Role of patient preferences | Level of caregiver concern may influence the duration of oximetry monitoring |
Exclusions | None |
Strength | Weak recommendation (based on low quality of evidence) |
Key references | 33,36 |
Aggregate Evidence Quality | Grade D |
Benefits | Identification of hypoxemia |
Risks, harm, cost | Increased costs due to monitoring over time and the use of hospital resources |
False-positive results may lead to subsequent testing and hospitalization | |
False reassurance from negative test results | |
Benefit-harm assessment | The potential benefit of detecting hypoxemia outweighs the harm of cost and false results |
Intentional vagueness | Duration of time to monitor patients with continuous pulse oximetry and the number and frequency of serial observations may vary |
Role of patient preferences | Level of caregiver concern may influence the duration of oximetry monitoring |
Exclusions | None |
Strength | Weak recommendation (based on low quality of evidence) |
Key references | 33,36 |