# Enhancing Medication Recommendation with LLM Text Representation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10453 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.10453/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 15 Jul 2024.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [DART: A Structured Dataset of Regulatory Drug Documents in Italian for Clinical NLP](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.18475/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Most of the existing medication recommendation models are predicted with only structured data such as medical codes, with the remaining other large amount of unstructured or semi-structured data underutilization. To increase the utilization effectively, we proposed a method of enhancing medication recommendation with Large Language Model (LLM) text representation. LLM harnesses powerful language understanding and generation capabilities, enabling the extraction of information from complex and lengthy unstructured data such as clinical notes which contain complex terminology. This method can be applied to several existing base models we selected and improve medication recommendation performance with the combination representation of text and medical codes experiments on two different datasets. LLM text representation alone can even demonstrate a comparable ability to the medical code representation alone. Overall, this is a general method that can be applied to other models for improved recommendations.