ArticleJMIR medical informatics2026
Extracting Social Determinants of Health From Electronic Health Records: Development and Comparison of Rule-Based and Large Language Model Methods.
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- Using reasoning LLMs to extract SDOH events from clinical notes.Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics · 2026Article
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backgroundSocial determinants of health (SDoH) are critical drivers of health outcomes but are often underdocumented in structured electronic health record (EHR) data. Instead, SDoH are more commonly recorded in unstructured clinical notes, and unlocking this information could have far-reaching implications for advancing population health research and informing clinical decision-making.
objectiveThis study develops and systematically evaluates cost-efficient methods for extracting SDoH information from unstructured clinical text using rule-based natural language processing (NLP) and large language model (LLM)-based approaches.
methodsWe constructed a gold-standard annotated corpus comprising clinical text segments from 171 patients in the Mass General Brigham Research Patient Data Registry, covering 7 SDoH domain categories and 23 subcategories. A rule-based system (RBS) was developed and evaluated alongside 7 OpenAI GPT models (GPT-4o, 4.1, 4.1-mini, o4-mini, GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, and o3) under zero-shot and few-shot settings using multiple prompting strategies. We additionally implemented late-fusion ensemble approaches that combined outputs from rule- and LLM-based methods. Performance was assessed using precision, recall, and F
resultsThe RBS achieved high precision for SDoH domain categories (0.96) but substantially lower recall (0.68). GPT-based models consistently outperformed the RBS in overall recall and F
conclusionsRecent GPT models with advanced reasoning capabilities, including the newly released mini models (eg, o4-mini and GPT-5-mini), demonstrated strong performance for SDoH extraction without task-specific fine-tuning and consistently outperformed the rule-based NLP system. Integrating rule- and LLM-based methods via late fusion further enhanced domain-level extraction performance. Our results demonstrate a cost-efficient framework for the accurate identification of SDoH from clinical text, facilitating downstream population health research and clinical informatics applications.
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