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  • Biostatistics
  • Health Informatics
  • Data Science

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  • Missing data in electronic health record (EHR) analyses can lead to biased results.
  • Implementing sophisticated imputation methods for EHR data presents significant challenges for researchers.
  • Detailed procedures are provided for the imputation of EHR laboratory results.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Assess mechanisms of missingness in EHR data.
  • Evaluate the performance of various imputation methods.
  • Describe common challenges encountered during data imputation.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of clinical laboratory measures from 602,366 patients at Geisinger Health System.
  • Simulation of missing data based on four mechanisms (MCAR, MNAR, MAR, real data).
  • Assessment of 12 different imputation methods, including Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations (MICE) and softImpute.

Main Results:

  • Several methods, including MICE variations and softImpute, demonstrated consistent low-error imputation of missing values.
  • Only a subset of MICE methods proved suitable for multiple imputation.
  • Performance varied across methods, highlighting the need for careful selection.

Conclusions:

  • The study outlines considerations for handling missing EHR data and characterizing missingness.
  • Provides an evaluation of imputation methods applicable to clinical data.
  • The described process is generalizable to structured EHR data types, with publicly available methods and code.