PMC-Patients Dataset

## PMC-Patients Dataset

The core file of our dataset, containing the patient summaries, demographics, and relational annotations.

### PMC-Patients.json
Patient summaries are presented as a `json` file, which is a list of dictionaries with the following keys:
- `patient_id`: string. A continuous id of patients, starting from 0.
- `patient_uid`: string. Unique ID for each patient, with format PMID-x, where PMID is the PubMed Identifier of source article of the note and x denotes index of the note in source article.
- `PMID`: string. PMID for source article.
- `file_path`: string. File path of xml file of source article.
- `title`: string. Source article title.
- `patient`: string. Patient note.
- `age`: list of tuples. Each entry is in format `(value, unit)` where value is a float number and unit is in 'year', 'month', 'week', 'day' and 'hour' indicating age unit. For example, `[[1.0, 'year'], [2.0, 'month']]` indicating the patient is a one-year- and two-month-old infant.
- `gender`: 'M' or 'F'. Male or Female.
- `relevant_articles`: dict. The key is PMID of the relevant articles and the corresponding value is its relevance score (2 or 1 as defined in the ``Methods'' section).
- `similar_patients`: dict. The key is patient_uid of the similar patients and the corresponding value is its similarity score (2 or 1 as defined in the ``Methods'' section).