loinc_reference_unit_v1

<p>A dataset mapping each LOINC codes to the reference harmonized unit of their LOINC group.</p>

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Navigating the shift of clinical laboratory data from primary everyday clinical use to secondary research purposes presents a significant challenge. Given the substantial time and expertise required for lab data pre-processing and cleaning and the lack of all-in-one tools tailored for this need, we developed our algorithm 'lab2clean' as an open-source R-package. 'lab2clean' package is set to automate and standardize the intricate process of cleaning clinical laboratory results. With a keen focus on improving the data quality of laboratory result values and units, our goal is to equip researchers with a straightforward, plug-and-play tool, making it smoother for them to unlock the true potential of clinical laboratory data in clinical research and clinical machine learning (ML) model development. Functions to clean & validate result values (Version 1.0) are described in detail in 'Zayed et al. (2024)' <doi:10.1186/s12911-024-02652-7>. Functions to standardize & harmonize result units (added in Version 2.0) are described in detail in 'Zayed et al. (2025)' <doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2025.106131>.

Ahmed Zayed

lab2clean

Automation and Standardization of Cleaning Clinical Laboratory
Data

Ilias Sarikakis

Arne Janssens

Pavlos Mamouris

loinc_reference_unit_v1 function

<p>A data frame with 33197 rows and 8 variables.</p>

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Data for the Reference Harmonized Units for LOINC Groups — loinc_reference_unit_v1

Data for the Reference Harmonized Units for LOINC Groups

loinc_reference_unit_v1: Data for the Reference Harmonized Units for LOINC Groups

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