Towards Error-Free EHRs: Reasoning-Intensive Consistency Verification Between Clinical Notes and Structured Tables in Electronic Health Records
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| author | Kwon, Yeonsu Kim, Jiho Choi, Junseong Rabaey, Paloma Kim, Minseo Im, Sujeong Yang, Jeewon Lee, Jun-Min Lee, Sangji Kim, Jiwon Yoon, Hangyul Kwon, Hyunwook Choi, Edward |
| author_facet | Kwon, Yeonsu Kim, Jiho Choi, Junseong Rabaey, Paloma Kim, Minseo Im, Sujeong Yang, Jeewon Lee, Jun-Min Lee, Sangji Kim, Jiwon Yoon, Hangyul Kwon, Hyunwook Choi, Edward |
| contents | Data consistency between unstructured clinical notes and structured tables in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is essential for patient safety and clinical decision-making. However, existing work on note-table consistency verification mainly relies on surface-level matching of numeric values or simple events. Such approaches fail to capture the reasoning underlying real-world EHR documentation, including clinical interpretation, event relations, and temporal changes. To address this gap, we introduce EHR-ReasonCon, a reasoning-intensive benchmark for note-table consistency verification. Built on MIMIC-III with expert-guided annotations, it comprises 8,048 entities derived from clinical notes and provides high-quality ground-truth labels. The annotation protocol is supported by specialized table-exploration tools to ensure systematic evidence retrieval and reliable consistency assessment. We also propose EHR-Inspector, an LLM-based framework that segments notes, extracts anchor entities and temporal references, and uses table-exploration tools to verify consistency against structured tables. Evaluated using expert-validated LLM-as-a-judge metrics under harsh and lenient criteria, EHR-Inspector achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple model backbones. Analyses further demonstrate the effectiveness of its components and highlight differences from human verification. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards Error-Free EHRs: Reasoning-Intensive Consistency Verification Between Clinical Notes and Structured Tables in Electronic Health Records Kwon, Yeonsu Kim, Jiho Choi, Junseong Rabaey, Paloma Kim, Minseo Im, Sujeong Yang, Jeewon Lee, Jun-Min Lee, Sangji Kim, Jiwon Yoon, Hangyul Kwon, Hyunwook Choi, Edward Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Data consistency between unstructured clinical notes and structured tables in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is essential for patient safety and clinical decision-making. However, existing work on note-table consistency verification mainly relies on surface-level matching of numeric values or simple events. Such approaches fail to capture the reasoning underlying real-world EHR documentation, including clinical interpretation, event relations, and temporal changes. To address this gap, we introduce EHR-ReasonCon, a reasoning-intensive benchmark for note-table consistency verification. Built on MIMIC-III with expert-guided annotations, it comprises 8,048 entities derived from clinical notes and provides high-quality ground-truth labels. The annotation protocol is supported by specialized table-exploration tools to ensure systematic evidence retrieval and reliable consistency assessment. We also propose EHR-Inspector, an LLM-based framework that segments notes, extracts anchor entities and temporal references, and uses table-exploration tools to verify consistency against structured tables. Evaluated using expert-validated LLM-as-a-judge metrics under harsh and lenient criteria, EHR-Inspector achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple model backbones. Analyses further demonstrate the effectiveness of its components and highlight differences from human verification. |
| title | Towards Error-Free EHRs: Reasoning-Intensive Consistency Verification Between Clinical Notes and Structured Tables in Electronic Health Records |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26463 |