Open Patients: 180,142 Aggregated Public Patient Notes

180,142 patient descriptions aggregated from four open-source datasets of public patient notes. The dataset was created by author abuhoraira06 and last updated on April 12, 2026. Each record includes a unique identifier linking it to its source dataset and the full text of the patient note.

Use Cases

• Training language models for clinical text understanding based on aggregated patient descriptions.
• Benchmarking de-identification algorithms on public patient notes.
• Analyzing linguistic patterns and structure in medical narratives from multiple sources.

Strengths

• Aggregates 180,142 patient notes from four distinct public sources.
• Provides a unique identifier for each record to trace its original dataset.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for individual source datasets is unknown, making source-specific analysis difficult.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Aggregated from four unspecified open-source datasets of public patient notes.

Collection Method

Aggregation of existing public datasets.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-12 04:38:59; freshness should be verified.