Extracting antibiotic susceptibility from free-text microbiology reports using natural language processing
Andrew D. Chou, Ronald George Hauser, Lori A. Bastian, Cynthia Brandt, Barbara Wells Trautner · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2025
There is a clinical need to appropriately apply large language model (LLM)-based systems for use in infectious diseases. We sought to use LLM and machine learning for extracting antibiotic susceptibility from clinical microbiology free-text reports, allowing use for outbreak detection, increasing information gathering efficiency, and public health reporting.