Elcy Birgen

Discussion This study helps fill a critical knowledge gap on the prevalence of hypoxaemia, hypoxaemia trajectory phenotypes and chronic hypoxaemia among hospitalised adults in Kenya. Nearly a quarter of patients admitted to the medicine wards at a national referral hospital in Kenya were hypoxaemic on admission. Of those, nearly one-third died during their hospitalisation, while one-third had resolution of their hypoxaemia during their hospitalisation.