Estimating depression severity in narrative clinical notes using large language models.

Journal: Journal of affective disorders
Published Date:

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Depression treatment guidelines emphasize measurement-based care using patient-reported outcome measures, yet their impact on narrative documentation quality remains underexplored.

Authors

  • Thomas H McCoy
    Center for Quantitative Health, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: thmccoy@partners.org.
  • Victor M Castro
  • Roy H Perlis
    Center for Quantitative Health, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.