Leveraging natural language processing to improve electronic health record suicide risk prediction for Veterans Health Administration users

M Levis, J Levy, KR Dent, V Dufort… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - psychiatrist.com
Background: Suicide risk prediction models frequently rely on structured electronic health
record (EHR) data, including patient demographics and health care usage variables …

Leveraging unstructured electronic medical record notes to derive population-specific suicide risk models

M Levis, J Levy, V Dufort, GT Gobbel, BV Watts… - Psychiatry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electronic medical record (EMR)-based suicide risk prediction methods typically rely on
analysis of structured variables such as demographics, visit history, and prescription data …

Natural language processing of clinical mental health notes may add predictive value to existing suicide risk models

M Levis, CL Westgate, J Gui, BV Watts… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThis study evaluated whether natural language processing (NLP) of
psychotherapy note text provides additional accuracy over and above currently used suicide …

Natural language processing and machine learning of electronic health records for prediction of first-time suicide attempts

FR Tsui, L Shi, V Ruiz, ND Ryan, C Biernesser… - JAMIA …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective Limited research exists in predicting first-time suicide attempts that account for two-
thirds of suicide decedents. We aimed to predict first-time suicide attempts using a large data …

Using natural language processing to evaluate temporal patterns in suicide risk variation among high-risk Veterans

M Levis, J Levy, M Dimambro, V Dufort, DJ Ludmer… - Psychiatry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Measuring suicide risk fluctuation remains difficult, especially for high-suicide risk patients.
Our study addressed this issue by leveraging Dynamic Topic Modeling, a natural language …

Evaluation of electronic health record-based suicide risk prediction models on contemporary data

RL Walker, SM Shortreed, RA Ziebell… - Applied clinical …, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
Background Suicide risk prediction models have been developed by using information from
patients' electronic health records (EHR), but the time elapsed between model development …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting Suicide Among US Veterans Using Natural Language Processing-enriched Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health

A Mitra, K Chen, W Liu, RC Kessler, H Yu - Research Square, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite recognizing the critical association between social and behavioral determinants of
health (SBDH) and suicide risk, SBDHs from unstructured electronic health record (EHR) …

Predictive structured–unstructured interactions in EHR models: A case study of suicide prediction

I Bayramli, V Castro, Y Barak-Corren, EM Madsen… - NPJ digital …, 2022 - nature.com
Clinical risk prediction models powered by electronic health records (EHRs) are becoming
increasingly widespread in clinical practice. With suicide-related mortality rates rising in …

Applied Clinical Informatics

K Krause, S Davis, Z Yin, K Schafer, T Rosenbloom… - 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of enhancing a structured-
data-based suicide attempt risk prediction model with temporal Concept Unique Identifiers …

Predicting the risk of suicide by analyzing the text of clinical notes

C Poulin, B Shiner, P Thompson, L Vepstas… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We developed linguistics-driven prediction models to estimate the risk of suicide. These
models were generated from unstructured clinical notes taken from a national sample of US …