Beyond Physical Illness: Can Clinical Narratives Reveal Emerging Mental Health Risks in Chronically Ill Patients?· 超越生理疾病:临床叙事能否揭示慢性病患者的心理健康风险?
Mental-health risks such as depression, dementia, and suicidal ideation can emerge during hospitalization among chronically ill patients and may worsen without timely recognition and intervention. However, most existing mental health studies focus on patients with established psychiatric conditions rather than patients hospitalized primarily for physical illness. In this work, we investigate whether latent mental-health risk in chronically ill patients can be inferred from longitudinal clinical narratives. We construct a weakly supervised cohort around 4,000 patients from MIMIC-III using mental-health evidence extracted from discharge summaries. A hierarchical state-space framework derives mental-health representations from day-wise clinical narratives and models their temporal evolution f
研究慢性病患者的临床记录能否揭示潜在的心理健康风险。
- 核心方法
- 使用MIMIC-III数据集构建约4,000名患者的研究队列,通过出院摘要中的心理健康证据进行弱监督学习,采用分层状态空间框架从日志临床记录中提取心理健康表示并建模其时间演变。
- 适合谁读
- 医疗研究者、AI研究人员、临床医生
- 要解决的问题
- 许多慢性病患者在住院期间可能会出现心理健康问题,如抑郁、痴呆和自杀念头,但这些风险往往没有得到及时识别和干预。
- 关键实验
- 使用MIMIC-III数据集进行实验,构建了4,000名患者的研究队列,并评估了模型的性能。
- 主要贡献
- 提出了一种新的方法,能够从慢性病患者的临床叙事中识别潜在的心理健康风险,促进了早期干预的可能性。
- 意义与局限
- 该研究有助于医疗专业人员更好地理解慢性病患者的心理健康状况,提高早期识别和干预能力。然而,数据来源可能有限,且模型泛化能力仍需进一步验证。