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title = "{M}ed{D}ec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries",
author = "Elgaar, Mohamed and
Cheng, Jiali and
Vakil, Nidhi and
Amiri, Hadi and
Celi, Leo Anthony",
editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
Martins, Andre and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.975",
pages = "16442--16455",
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.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T MedDec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries
%A Elgaar, Mohamed
%A Cheng, Jiali
%A Vakil, Nidhi
%A Amiri, Hadi
%A Celi, Leo Anthony
%Y Ku, Lun-Wei
%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
%F elgaar-etal-2024-meddec
%X 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.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.975
%P 16442-16455
Markdown (Informal)
[MedDec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.975) (Elgaar et al., Findings 2024)
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