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Limited note categories in MIMIC-IV

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In MIMIC-III, there are multiple types of clinical notes (echo, nursing, physician, discharge summary,...).

It seems like MIMIC-IV Notes only releases discharge summaries and radiology notes. Are other note categories (like physician, nursing, etc,...) still available somewhere else in MIMIC-IV? Or were these never published? If so, is there a specific reason for only publishing discharge summaries?

I am asking since I'm interested in linking free-text clinical notes taken on a certain day to objective measurements observed during the same day. This seems possible in MIMIC-III: for the nursing and physician note types, I can match with the chartevents table using chartdate to extract objective measurements on the same date. This does not seem possible in MIMIC-IV, since discharge summaries are only written at the end of the patient's stay and thus don't relate to a specific day of objective measurements. Am I correct in making this assumption?

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The issue names no repository file, test, or entry point. Start with the MIMIC online documentation and the MIMIC-IV Notes availability described in the issue; done means establishing whether additional note categories exist and, if not, documenting the reason and the implications for date matching.

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databases, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
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Estimated time
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