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Extracting social determinants of health from electronic health records: development and comparison of rule-based and large language models-based methods

2025-11-17 health informatics Title + abstract only
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ObjectivesSocial determinants of health (SDoH) are critical drivers of health outcomes but are often under-documented in structured electronic health record data. This study aimed to develop and evaluate scalable methods for extracting seven SDoH domain categories and 23 subcategories from unstructured clinical notes using both rule-based and large language model (LLM)-based approaches. MethodsWe constructed a gold-standard SDoH corpus comprising clinical text segments from 171 patients in the ...

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