Clarifying the structure of discharge summaries in MIMIC

[jkk750]

Dear MIMIC-IV Community Members,

I’m currently working with the MIMIC-IV dataset and wanted to check if anyone can confirm whether there is a standardized order for key sections (e.g., Allergies, History of Present Illness, Past Medical History, etc.) across all discharge summaries. I’m aiming to parse these sections into individual columns for further analysis.

Thanks in advance.

[alistairewj]

There is a default template that most providers use that has an order. But it's free text so they are free to update, delete, rearrange. Sometimes the section is put in twice.

See #304 for a detailed break down.

There are a few open source repositories that try to tackle this so I'd recommend a good search of GitHub before writing it all yourself.