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  The Clinical Guidelines corpus is a new dataset of 46K clinical practice guidelines from various medical sources. This dataset is part of the original training corpus of the [Meditron](https://huggingface.co/epfl-llm/meditron-70b) LLM.
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- <img width=50% src="guidelines.png" alt="Sources of Clinical Practice Guidelines" title="CPG sources">
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- We release 35K scraped articles (in both raw and cleaned form) from 8 of 16 clinical guidelines sources allowing redistribution (namely CCO, CDC, CMA, ICRC, NICE, SPOR, WHO & WikiDoc). You can scrape and clean all 16 guideline sources using our web scrapers and pre-processing code in [epfLLM/meditron](https://github.com/epfLLM/meditron).
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  - **Language(s) (NLP):** English only
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- ### Dataset Sources [optional]
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  Each row of the dataset represents one clinical practice guideline article, and consists of the following string dataset fields (all strings):
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  - `id`: Unique identifier for each article.
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- - `source`: Source tag ('cco', 'cdc', 'cma', 'icrc', 'nice', 'spor', 'who' or 'wikidoc')
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  - `title`: Title of the article (only for CMA, NICE and WikiDoc)
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  - `url`: URL of the article (only for NICE and WikiDoc)
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  - `raw_text`: Unprocessed scraped article text
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  <!-- This section describes the source data (e.g. news text and headlines, social media posts, translated sentences, ...). -->
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  The \guidelines corpus comprises a broad range of contexts. For instance, the geographic scope ranges from global (WHO) to national (CDC, NICE) and regional (Ontario, Melbourne) to institutional (ICRC, Mayo Clinic). The corpus also represents health care concerns from high- (Ontario, Melbourne), low- (WHO), and volatile- (ICRC) resource settings.
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  \guidelines{} also contains a range of technical and conversational vocabulary with target audiences of clinicians or patients (or both), and is sometimes highly specialized within a theme (cancer, pediatrics, infectious disease). The peer review processes also ranged from UN bodies (WHO), institutional review boards (ICRC), professional associations (AAFP) to publicly crowdsourced knowledge bases (WikiDoc).
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  <!-- This section describes the data collection and processing process such as data selection criteria, filtering and normalization methods, tools and libraries used, etc. -->
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- After extracting the raw text from each source, we cleaned data to exclude irrelevant or repetitive content that did not contribute to the textual content, such as URLs, references, figures, table delimiters, and ill-formatted characters.
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  Finally, all samples were deduplicated using title matching, and articles that were too short or not English were filtered out.
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  We employed pragmatic selection criteria over medical sources, seeking CPGs that were:
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  - (3) in the language predominantly represented by the pre-training corpus of Llama (i.e., English)
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- - (4) covering a breadth of medical sub-domains, audiences (clinician, nurse, patient), and resource settings (high, low, and humanitarian response settings).
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- ### Annotations [optional]
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  Users should be made aware of the risks, biases and limitations of the dataset. More information needed for further recommendations.
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  The Clinical Guidelines corpus is a new dataset of 46K clinical practice guidelines from various medical sources. This dataset is part of the original training corpus of the [Meditron](https://huggingface.co/epfl-llm/meditron-70b) LLM.
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+ We publicly release a portion of 36K articles from our Guidelines corpus belonging to the 8 of 16 sources allowing content redistribution, namely CCO, CDC, CMA, ICRC, NICE, SPOR, WHO and WikiDoc.
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+ You can scrape and clean all 16 guideline sources using our web scrapers and pre-processing code in [epfLLM/meditron](https://github.com/epfLLM/meditron).
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  Each row of the dataset represents one clinical practice guideline article, and consists of the following string dataset fields (all strings):
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  - `title`: Title of the article (only for CMA, NICE and WikiDoc)
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  The \guidelines corpus comprises a broad range of contexts. For instance, the geographic scope ranges from global (WHO) to national (CDC, NICE) and regional (Ontario, Melbourne) to institutional (ICRC, Mayo Clinic). The corpus also represents health care concerns from high- (Ontario, Melbourne), low- (WHO), and volatile- (ICRC) resource settings.
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  \guidelines{} also contains a range of technical and conversational vocabulary with target audiences of clinicians or patients (or both), and is sometimes highly specialized within a theme (cancer, pediatrics, infectious disease). The peer review processes also ranged from UN bodies (WHO), institutional review boards (ICRC), professional associations (AAFP) to publicly crowdsourced knowledge bases (WikiDoc).
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+ PDF documents were converted to text using [GROBID](https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid).
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+ After extracting the raw text from each source, we cleaned data with an ad-hoc process to exclude irrelevant or repetitive content that did not contribute to the textual content, such as URLs, references, figures, table delimiters, and ill-formatted characters.
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  Users should be made aware of the risks, biases and limitations of the dataset. More information needed for further recommendations.
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