Clinical Note Text

clin_note_txt

clinical

Updated 5/15/2026

Definition

Unstructured or semi-structured free-text captured by clinicians during patient encounters in EHR systems, including SOAP notes, progress notes, and discharge summaries. Used in NLP pipelines for clinical coding, quality measure extraction, and downstream analytics in platforms like Epic and Cerner.

Standard Abbreviation

clin_note_txt

Database Usage

-- Example column naming
CREATE TABLE claims (
  clm_id VARCHAR(50),
  clin_note_txt VARCHAR(255),  -- Clinical Note Text (max 255 chars)
  ...
);

-- Example in SELECT
SELECT
  clm_id,
  clin_note_txt as clinical_note_text
FROM claims;

Common uses in healthcare data

Risk stratification and population health analytics
CMS-HCC risk adjustment and RAF score calculation
Quality measure attribution and HEDIS reporting
Clinical data warehouse schema design
Value-based care contract performance tracking

Example database column name

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
clinical_note_text

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  clinical_note_text VARCHAR(255),  -- Clinical Note Text (max 255 chars)
  created_dt  TIMESTAMP     NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
);

Column names follow the ISO-11179 naming convention: lowercase, underscore-separated, using the standard abbreviation as a prefix where applicable.

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