From free text to SOFA score reconstructs sepsis severity from clinical notes

PreprintmedRxiv 2025 · 1 min read
Respiratory variable recovery
100%
Up from 33% in MIMIC-III notes (n=284)
Critical cases reclassified (SOFA ≥ 10)
61%
Up from 29%

medRxiv preprint: automated SOFA reconstruction improved respiratory variable recovery from 33% to 100%.

The study focuses on automated reconstruction of sepsis severity from unstructured clinical notes. In a MIMIC-III cohort of n=284, the approach improved respiratory variable recovery from 33% to 100% and reclassified critical SOFA ≥ 10 cases from 29% to 61%.

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Data: Up from 33% in MIMIC-III notes (n=284) · Up from 29% — medRxiv 2025

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MetricValueWhat it means
Respiratory variable recovery100%Up from 33% in MIMIC-III notes (n=284)
Critical cases reclassified (SOFA ≥ 10)61%Up from 29%

How to cite

Katherine Monsalve Barrientos, Natalia Castaño-Villegas, Elmer Escandón, Jose Zea, Laura Velásquez. From free text to SOFA score: automated reconstruction of sepsis severity from unstructured clinical notes. medRxiv. 2025. https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.12.17.25342509v1

@article{barrientos2025from,
  title     = {{From free text to SOFA score: automated reconstruction of sepsis severity from unstructured clinical notes}},
  author    = {Katherine Monsalve Barrientos and Natalia Castaño-Villegas and Elmer Escandón and Jose Zea and Laura Velásquez},
  journal   = {medRxiv},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.12.17.25342509v1},
  note      = {Preprint}
}

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