Missing Respiration and Liver SOFA Subscores in MIMIC-IV: Causes and Handling
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Description
I am currently using the MIMIC-IV derived sofa table for my research.
I noticed that about 40% of stay_ids have null values for the respiration and liver SOFA subscores across all timestamps.Clinically, it seems unusual for these SOFA subscores to be missing at such a high rate.
I would appreciate it if you could provide any insights into why these missing values might be occurring. Additionally, I would be grateful for any solutions or recommendations on how to handle these missing values.
Your work is fantastic and greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading!
Ryu
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Review the MIMIC-IV online documentation and the derived SOFA table referenced in the report; no repository file or test is named. Determine whether the respiration and liver nulls are expected and document the supported interpretation or handling guidance, using the reported 40% of stay_ids as the issue to explain.
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Assessment
- Domain
- data, databases
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100