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Blood pH values missing from labevents between MIMIC-IV 1.0 and 2.1 versions #1533

Open joaocolaco opened 1 year ago

joaocolaco commented 1 year ago

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Hi, I've been some analysis involving blood gases measurementes in MIMIC-IV. The work was on standby since last year and now I restarted it using version 2.1.

With this I've noticed that almost all blood pH values (from the table labevents with itemid 50820) below 7.24 are missing. I've also used the itemid's 50831, for pH of "Other Body Fluid " and the best that could get were about more 50 results below 7.24.

With the previous version I had thousands of results below 7.24.

If I search for the specimen_idof one of those low values from the 1.0 version in the 2.1 version the results are from a blood gas analyser but are incomplete (at least without pH but also pCO2, pO2, etc, but with sodium, potassium, hematocrit). You can try searching the specimen_id of lavbevents 55927374, 55411879 or 28628306.

Is there any reason for removing those results or there was mistake somewhere when retrieve the values?

Best regards, João Colaço