# How Compliant is Sepsis Treatment? An Expert-Guided Neuro-symbolic Pipeline for Generating Clinical Compliance Insights

> Source: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13617>
> Published: 2026-08-17 04:00:00+00:00

arXiv:2608.13617v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Verifying whether clinical care follows evidence-based protocols is a natural neuro-symbolic problem, yet the safety-critical setting defeats either paradigm alone. We present an expert-guided pipeline that constrains a large language model strictly to semantic normalization, mapping messy drug and microbiology strings onto a fixed clinical vocabulary, while a Sugeno fuzzy inference system reasons over the normalized events. The fuzzy layer encodes eight Surviving Sepsis Campaign bundle rules and replaces binary judgments with graded scores in [0,1]. Applied to 2,438 MIMIC-IV v3.1 sepsis episodes, it surfaces antibiotic timing as the most critical breakdown (mean 0.24, 13% within one hour), Hour-1 underperformance (mean 36.7%), a 51% elevated-lactate drop-off, and descriptive differences in ICU stay across compliance groups (3.8 versus 5.1 days).