MedDec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries

Mohamed Elgaar, Jiali Cheng, Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri, Leo Anthony Celi


Abstract
Medical decisions directly impact individuals’ health and well-being. Extracting decision spans from clinical notes plays a crucial role in understanding medical decision-making processes. In this paper, we develop a new dataset called “MedDec,” which contains clinical notes of eleven different phenotypes (diseases) annotated by ten types of medical decisions. We introduce the task of medical decision extraction, aiming to jointly extract and classify different types of medical decisions within clinical notes. We provide a comprehensive analysis of the dataset, develop a span detection model as a baseline for this task, evaluate recent span detection approaches, and employ a few metrics to measure the complexity of data samples. Our findings shed light on the complexities inherent in clinical decision extraction and enable future work in this area of research. The dataset and code are available through https://github.com/CLU-UML/MedDec.
Anthology ID:
2024.findings-acl.975
Original:
2024.findings-acl.975v1
Version 2:
2024.findings-acl.975v2
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Month:
August
Year:
2024
Address:
Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
Venue:
Findings
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
16442–16455
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.975
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.975
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Mohamed Elgaar, Jiali Cheng, Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri, and Leo Anthony Celi. 2024. MedDec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 16442–16455, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
MedDec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries (Elgaar et al., Findings 2024)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.975.pdf