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Table 4 Silver-standard low and high ranges for implausible observation values

From: A clustering approach for detecting implausible observation values in electronic health records data

LOINC

Low implausible

High implausible

Long common name

1742-6

0

2500

Alanine aminotransferase [Enzymatic activity/volume] in Serum or Plasma

1751-7

0

20

Albumin [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

2862-1

0

20

Albumin [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma by Electrophoresis

6768-6

0

5000

Alkaline phosphatase [Enzymatic activity/volume] in Serum or Plasma

1920-8

0

12500

Aspartate aminotransferase [Enzymatic activity/volume] in Serum or Plasma

26444-0

0

100

Basophils [#/volume] in Blood

704-7

0

5

Basophils [#/volume] in Blood by Automated count

706-2

0

50

Basophils/100 leukocytes in Blood by Automated count

707-0

0

50

Basophils/100 leukocytes in Blood by Manual count

1959-6

0

100

Bicarbonate [Moles/volume] in Blood

1971-1

0

50

Bilirubin.indirect [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

1975-2

0

50

Bilirubin.total [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

29463-7

0

1400

Body weight

2093-3

0

1500

Cholesterol [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

2085-9

0

450

Cholesterol in HDL [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

2089-1

0

780

Cholesterol in LDL [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

13457-7

0

1000

Cholesterol in LDL [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma by calculation

9830-1

0

100

Cholesterol.total/Cholesterol in HDL [Mass Ratio] in Serum or Plasma

8462-4

0

360

Diastolic blood pressure

26449-9

0

100

Eosinophils [#/volume] in Blood

26450-7

0

100

Eosinophils/100 leukocytes in Blood

713-8

0

100

Eosinophils/100 leukocytes in Blood by Automated count

714-6

0

100

Eosinophils/100 leukocytes in Blood by Manual count

789-8

0

25

Erythrocytes [#/volume] in Blood by Automated count

2324-2

0

2500

Gamma glutamyl transferase [Enzymatic activity/volume] in Serum or Plasma

2339-0

0

1000

Glucose [Mass/volume] in Blood

30313-1

0.5

75

Hemoglobin [Mass/volume] in Arterial blood

718-7

0.5

75

Hemoglobin [Mass/volume] in Blood

4548-4

0

30

Hemoglobin A1c/Hemoglobin.total in Blood

6690-2

0

500

Leukocytes [#/volume] in Blood by Automated count

26478-8

0

100

Lymphocytes/100 leukocytes in Blood

736-9

0

100

Lymphocytes/100 leukocytes in Blood by Automated count

737-7

0

100

Lymphocytes/100 leukocytes in Blood by Manual count

785-6

0

100

MCH [Entitic mass] by Automated count

786-4

0

100

MCHC [Mass/volume] by Automated count

787-2

0

400

MCV [Entitic volume] by Automated count

26484-6

0

100

Monocytes [#/volume] in Blood

742-7

0

100

Monocytes [#/volume] in Blood by Automated count

26485-3

0

100

Monocytes/100 leukocytes in Blood

5905-5

0

100

Monocytes/100 leukocytes in Blood by Automated count

744-3

0

100

Monocytes/100 leukocytes in Blood by Manual count

26499-4

0

400

Neutrophils [#/volume] in Blood

26511-6

0

100

Neutrophils/100 leukocytes in Blood

6298-4

0

30

Potassium [Moles/volume] in Blood

2885-2

0

30

Protein [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

2947-0

0

580

Sodium [Moles/volume] in Blood

8480-6

0

560

Systolic blood pressure

2571-8

0

2500

Triglyceride [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

10839-9

0

20

Troponin I.cardiac [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

6598-7

0

20

Troponin T.cardiac [Mass/volume] in Serum or Plasma

  1. athe silver standard low and high ranges for implausible observation values are defined by the authors based on literature search and expert judgement, and validate using data distributions