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Agentic Chart Review from Longitudinal Clinical Notes: a Lung Cancer Guideline Concordance Use Case

Jiang, Y.; He, X.; Ai, X.; Jalal, S.; Maniar, R.; Majji, R. K.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, J.; Fedele, D.; Zhuang, Y.; Hollenbach, J.; Bian, J.

2026-06-03 oncology
10.64898/2026.06.02.26354727 medRxiv
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Clinical chart abstraction extracts structured patient variables from longitudinal clinical notes but is labor-intensive and difficult to scale. We evaluated LLM agents for question-guided chart review using lung cancer molecular testing guideline concordance as a use case. Two configurations were compared: (1) sequential note review using metadata and chronology, and (2) the same framework augmented with keyword-based note search. Gold-standard labels were established by human annotators. The search-enabled agent achieved higher accuracy (92.4% vs. 83.5%) and reduced errors by more than half (41 vs. 89) by retrieving evidence from long, heterogeneous note histories. In guideline concordance evaluation, most determinate patient-rule assessments were concordant (80.7%), while most apparent non-concordance reflected missing molecular testing documentation rather than documented care deviations. These results suggest tool-augmented LLM agents can approximate key aspects of human chart review and support scalable information extraction from longitudinal clinical documentation.

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