Leveraging LLMs for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Patient Records

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13700v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:10:12 GMT
• Title: Leveraging LLMs for Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Patient Records
• Authors: Mitchell A. Klusty, Elizabeth C. Solie, Caroline N. Leach, W. Vaiden Logan, Lynnet E. Richey, John C. Gensel, David P. Szczykutowicz, Bryan C. McLellan, Emily B. Collier, Samuel E. Armstrong, V. K. Cody Bumgardner,
• Abstract summary: Manual chart review remains an extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive component of clinical research.<n>We present a framework for automated structured feature extraction from clinical notes leveraging locally deployed large language models (LLMs)<n>This framework demonstrates the potential of LLM systems to reduce the burden of manual chart review and increase consistency in data capture.
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• Abstract: Manual chart review remains an extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive component of clinical research, requiring experts to extract often complex information from unstructured electronic health record (EHR) narratives. We present a secure, modular framework for automated structured feature extraction from clinical notes leveraging locally deployed large language models (LLMs) on institutionally approved, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)-compliant compute infrastructure. This system integrates retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and structured response methods of LLMs into a widely deployable and scalable container to provide feature extraction for diverse clinical domains. In evaluation, the framework achieved high accuracy across multiple medical characteristics present in large bodies of patient notes when compared against an expert-annotated dataset and identified several annotation errors missed in manual review. This framework demonstrates the potential of LLM systems to reduce the burden of manual chart review through automated extraction and increase consistency in data capture, accelerating clinical research.

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