Luoyao Chen
Author directory2026
ChronoClinQA: A Longitudinal Multi-Admission Benchmark for Clinical Reasoning over Electronic Health Records
Tong Chen | Zimu Wang | Dongzhe Fan | Luoyao Chen | Haoyi Lian | Yifan Wang | Zhengni Yang | Zhengyong Jiang | Procheta Sen | Wei Wang | Jionglong Su | Qiaoyu Tan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Tong Chen | Zimu Wang | Dongzhe Fan | Luoyao Chen | Haoyi Lian | Yifan Wang | Zhengni Yang | Zhengyong Jiang | Procheta Sen | Wei Wang | Jionglong Su | Qiaoyu Tan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on medical question answering benchmarks, yet existing evaluations remain limited in assessing longitudinal clinical reasoning across multiple hospital admissions. We introduce ChronoClinQA, a large-scale benchmark for longitudinal clinical reasoning grounded in multi-admission electronic health records. Built from longitudinal discharge summaries in MIMIC-IV-Note, ChronoClinQA contains 15,067 QA pairs spanning six clinically grounded reasoning dimensions and three complementary question formats: open-ended, adversarial, and unanswerable multiple-choice questions. Each instance requires reasoning over temporally accumulated patient trajectories, with contexts averaging over 16K tokens across up to eight hospital admissions. Experiments on both general-purpose and medical LLMs reveal substantial performance degradation in longitudinal and adversarial settings, highlighting persistent challenges in integrating cross-admission evidence and in temporal clinical reasoning. Our findings position ChronoClinQA as a challenging benchmark for advancing clinically grounded long-context reasoning in medical LLMs.