What are the abnormality trends in blood tests?
There are total of 182 blood tests in the dataset. In Patternfinder1.0, these tests are displayed in a long pull-down menu without filtering. Using the space filling method of the treemap, it is easy to find out which blood tests are most frequently used. By setting one level of hierarchy as test (blood test), it is easy to figure out that BS GLU, HCT, MCV, HGB, MCHC, RBC WBC, PLT, MCH, CREAT are the blood tests most frequently used. (See Figure 1) Five color bins has been created to indicate the average result of the blood test among patients. Blue indicates that the result are critically low, green – moderately low, white – within reference level, orange – moderately high, pink – critically high. BS GLU, WBC, RDW show moderately high (orange) abnormality, while PLT and BASO# abnormalities arent lopsided (white). In HCT, MCV, HGB, MCHC, RBC blood tests, it is more likely to detect lower value than the reference value (green). Also, these colored results reveal the typical symptoms and
