On the Importance of Clinical Notes in Multi-modal Learning for EHR Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03044v1
• Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 15:18:57 GMT
• Title: On the Importance of Clinical Notes in Multi-modal Learning for EHR Data
• Authors: Severin Husmann, Hugo Y\`eche, Gunnar R\"atsch, Rita Kuznetsova
• Abstract summary: Previous research has shown that jointly using clinical notes with electronic health record data improved predictive performance for patient monitoring. We first confirm that performance significantly improves over state-of-the-art EHR data models when combining EHR data and clinical notes. We then provide an analysis showing improvements arise almost exclusively from a subset of notes containing broader context on patient state rather than clinician notes.
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• Abstract: Understanding deep learning model behavior is critical to accepting machine learning-based decision support systems in the medical community. Previous research has shown that jointly using clinical notes with electronic health record (EHR) data improved predictive performance for patient monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU). In this work, we explore the underlying reasons for these improvements. While relying on a basic attention-based model to allow for interpretability, we first confirm that performance significantly improves over state-of-the-art EHR data models when combining EHR data and clinical notes. We then provide an analysis showing improvements arise almost exclusively from a subset of notes containing broader context on patient state rather than clinician notes. We believe such findings highlight deep learning models for EHR data to be more limited by partially-descriptive data than by modeling choice, motivating a more data-centric approach in the field.

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