Summarizing Patients Like Mine via an On-demand Consultation Service

Summary: Presents an on-demand clinical consultation service that mines millions of longitudinal patient records to answer bedside questions, reporting lessons from its first 100 requests. Introduces a scalable, time-aware clinical data search paradigm and engine. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 12740
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,468 | 7.60%
DOI: 10.14778/3484224.3484242

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Authors

1. Nigam Shah (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{shah_vldb21,
        title = {{Summarizing Patients Like Mine via an On-demand Consultation Service}},
        author = {Shah, Nigam},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {13},
        pages = {3417--3417},
        doi = {10.14778/3484224.3484242},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3484224.3484242},
        year = {2021}
}

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