Agentic Chart Review from Longitudinal Clinical Notes: a Lung Cancer Guideline Concordance Use Case
Journal:
medRxiv
Published Date:
Jun 3, 2026
Abstract
Clinical chart abstraction extracts structured patient variables from longitudinal clinical notes but is labor-intensive and difficult to scale. We evaluated LLM agents for question-guided chart review using lung cancer molecular testing guideline concordance as a use case. Two configurations were compared: (1) sequential note review using metadata and chronology, and (2) the same framework augmented with keyword-based note search. Gold-standard labels were established by human annotators. The search-enabled agent achieved higher accuracy (92.4% vs. 83.5%) and reduced errors by more than half (41 vs. 89) by retrieving evidence from long, heterogeneous note histories. In guideline concordance evaluation, most determinate patient-rule assessments were concordant (80.7%), while most apparent non-concordance reflected missing molecular testing documentation rather than documented care deviations. These results suggest tool-augmented LLM agents can approximate key aspects of human chart review and support scalable information extraction from longitudinal clinical documentation.
