The use of ug/min in the component name is an exception to the usual LOINC rule of ignoring powers of ten differences in reporting units. This is necessary because many laboratories report the per minute excretion rate as well as the per 24 hour exretion rate on the same 24 H sample and do not want ambiguity at the receiving system.
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Albumin ug/min
property
MRat = Mass Rate
time
24H = 24 hours
system
Urine
scale
Qn = Quantitative: The result of the test is a numeric value that relates to a continuous numeric scale. Reported either as an integer, a ratio, a real number, or a range. The test result value may optionally contain a relational operator from the set {<=, <, >, >=}. Valid values for a quantitative test are of the form "7", "-7", "7.4", "-7.4", "7.8912", "0.125", "<10", "<10.15", ">12000", 1-10, 1:256
ug/min The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business (www.unitsofmeasure.org)
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