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Table 4 Descriptive statistics of each FBC parameter in the final derived dataset

From: Assessing data quality from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink: a methodological approach applied to the full blood count blood test

FBC parameter

No. records

Mean

SD

Median

Min

Max

No. (%)a missing values

RBC (1012/L)

14,989,333

4.3

5.3

4.4

0

8,577.0

1,547,684 (9.4%)

WBC (109/L)

13,391,464

7.6

46.6

6.9

0

123,000.0

3,145,553 (19.0%)

Haemoglobin (g/dL)

15,956,531

14.7

14.2

13.5

0

13,728.7

580,486 (3.5%)

Haematocrit (L/L)

14,929,673

30.6

49.0

38.7

0

121,881.6

1,607,344 (9.7%)

MCV (fL)

15,508,063

90.7

15.4

91.0

0

10,730.0

1,028,954 (6.2%)

MCH (fL)

14,978,027

45.4

214.4

30.3

0

33,378.5

1,558,990 (9.4%)

MCHC (g/dL)

14,758,966

318.3

973.6

33.5

0

352,127.7

1,778,051 (10.8%)

RDW (%)

312,052

14.0

1.7

13.7

0

43.8

16,224,965 (98.1%)

Platelets (109/L)

15,409,814

266

175.0

256.0

0

319,000.0

1,127,203 (6.8%)

MPV (fL)

1,964,340

9.6

7.3

9.4

0

726.0

14,572,677 (88.1%)

Basophil count (109/L)

11,532,657

0.1

2.4

0.1

0

6,500.0

5,004,360 (30.3%)

Basophil proportion (%)

11,577,467

0.9

1.7

0.8

0

2,694.1

4,959,550 (30.0%)

Eosinophil count (109/L)

11,609,391

0.2

0.7

0.2

0

1,218.0

4,927,626 (29.8%)

Eosinophil proportion (%)

11,619,040

3.1

3.4

2.6

0

5,869.8

4,917,977 (29.7%)

Lymphocyte (109/L)

12,202,709

2.1

78.8

1.9

0

275,000.0

4,334,308 (26.2%)

Lymphocyte proportion (%)

12,195,027

28.5

43.4

28.1

0

95,486.1

4,341,990 (26.3%)

Monocyte count (109/L)

12,068,645

0.6

0.6

0.5

0

1,218.0

4,468,372 (27.0%)

Monocyte proportion (%)

12,076,053

7.8

5.5

7.5

0

8,590.6

4,460,964 (27.0%)

Neutrophil count (109/L)

12,306,549

4.5

7.1

4.1

0

12,200.0

4,230,468 (25.6%)

Neutrophil proportion (%)

12,299,432

60.4

44.2

60.0

0

59,623.5

4,237,585 (25.6%)

  1. FBC full blood count, RBC red blood cell count, WBC white blood cell count; WBC white blood cell count, MCV mean corpuscular volume, MCH mean corpuscular haemoglobin, MCHC mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, RDW red blood cell distribution width, MPV mean platelet volume
  2. aPercentages are calculated out of the total number of tests (n = 16,537,017)