Detection of Adverse Drug Events in Dutch clinical free text documents using Transformer Models: benchmark study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19396v2
• Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:02:30 GMT
• Title: Detection of Adverse Drug Events in Dutch clinical free text documents using Transformer Models: benchmark study
• Authors: Rachel M. Murphy, Nishant Mishra, Nicolette F. de Keizer, Dave A. Dongelmans, Kitty J. Jager, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Joanna E. Klopotowska, Iacer Calixto,
• Abstract summary: We establish a benchmark for adverse drug event (ADE) detection in Dutch clinical free-text documents.<n>We trained a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) model and four transformer-based Dutch and/or multilingual encoder models.<n>We evaluated our ADE RC models internally using the gold standard (two-step task) and predicted entities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this study, we establish a benchmark for adverse drug event (ADE) detection in Dutch clinical free-text documents using several transformer models, clinical scenarios, and fit-for-purpose performance measures. We trained a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) model and four transformer-based Dutch and/or multilingual encoder models (BERTje, RobBERT, MedRoBERTa(.)nl, and NuNER) for the tasks of named entity recognition (NER) and relation classification (RC) using 102 richly annotated Dutch ICU clinical progress notes. Anonymized free-text clinical progress notes of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of one academic hospital and discharge letters of patients admitted to Internal Medicine wards of two non-academic hospitals were reused. We evaluated our ADE RC models internally using the gold standard (two-step task) and predicted entities (end-to-end task). In addition, all models were externally validated for detecting ADEs at the document level. We report both micro- and macro-averaged F1 scores, given the dataset imbalance in ADEs. Although differences for the ADE RC task between the models were small, MedRoBERTa(.)nl was the best performing model with a macro-averaged F1 score of 0.63 using the gold standard and 0.62 using predicted entities. The MedRoBERTa(.)nl models also performed the best in our external validation and achieved a recall of between 0.67 to 0.74 using predicted entities, meaning between 67 to 74% of discharge letters with ADEs were detected. Our benchmark study presents a robust and clinically meaningful approach for evaluating language models for ADE detection in clinical free-text documents. Our study highlights the need to use appropriate performance measures fit for the task of ADE detection in clinical free-text documents and envisioned future clinical use.

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