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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2019 Apr;57(4):e22–e27. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000996

Table 1.

Overall lab frequencies

Lab Hospitalizations with lab collected within 24 hours, N (%) Labs with correct LOINC code, N (%) Labs with correct Test Names, N (%)
Albumin 4,174,664 (76.5%) 3,933,610 (94.2%) 3,974,919 (95.2%)
Bilirubin 4,128,887 (75.7%) 3,825,679 (92.7%) 3,927,150 (95.1%)
Creatinine 5,158,971 (94.6%) 4,646,143 (90.1%) 4,788,384 (92.8%)
Hemoglobin 5,192,475 (95.2%) 4,748,276 (91.4%) 4,923,084 (94.8%)
Sodium 5,155,181 (94.5%) 4,850,240 (94.1%) 4,996,554 (96.9%)
White Blood Cell 5,151,851 (94.5%) 4,875,813 (94.6%) 4,998,665 (97.0%)

Note: The percent of hospitalizations with the lab collected within the first 24 hours are based on N=5,454,411 VA hospitalizations from 2005 – 2015. The percent of labs with correct LOINC and Test Names are based on data presented in the first column; i.e., the number of hospitalizations with the lab collected.