Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) dataset

This dataset contains 1,000 structured, context-specific recommendation records derived from 76 English-language Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) published by the Ministry of Health Malaysia, covering 20 clinical specialty categories. It was developed as a CPG-grounded reference dataset for small language model research, instruction tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, clinical guideline retrieval, and recommendation-generation evaluation. The file extraction_prompt.txt contains the complete prompt template used for candidate inclusion decisions, field mapping and structured draft generation. The dataset is provided in JSON Lines (JSONL) format, with one independent record per line. Each record contains three fields: • “instruction”: A standard request for a CPG recommendation. • “input”: A disease or clinical condition and its specific clinical context. • “output”: A concise CPG-grounded recommendation for that context. Example: {"instruction": "Provide standard CPG recommendations.", "input": "Disease: retinopathy of prematurity\nClinical context: screening examination", "output": "CPG Recommendation: Use binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy or an approved imaging pathway by trained personnel and document zone, stage, extent, and plus disease."} The records address clinical contexts such as screening, diagnosis, risk assessment, treatment, medication, monitoring, referral, prevention, follow-up, warning signs, and intervention cessation. A disease may appear in multiple records representing different clinical contexts. The source CPGs were obtained from official Malaysian Ministry of Health websites. Dataset preparation involved identifying recommendation-bearing content, assigning the relevant disease and clinical context, converting the content into a consistent instruction–input–output structure, and checking JSONL validity, duplication, relevance, and source consistency. The dataset may be used as an experimental ground-truth reference for model evaluation but has not been independently validated as clinical ground truth by qualified clinical experts. It must not replace the original CPGs, professional medical judgement, diagnosis, or patient-specific treatment decisions. Copyright in the original CPG documents remains with the Malaysian Ministry of Health or the respective rights holders.