To evaluate our model, we employed the MIMIC dataset (Johnson et al. 2016 ) which has been widely used for automated ICD coding. Compared with 5 existing and stateof-the-art models (Perotte et al. 2013; Prakash et al. 2017; Shi et al. 2017; Baumel et al. 2018;<cite> Mullenbach et al. 2018)</cite> , our model outperformed them in nearly all the evaluation metrics (i.e., macro-and micro-AUC, macro-and micro-F1, precision at K).