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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A case for developing domain-specific vocabularies for extracting suicide factors from healthcare notes

D Morrow, R Zamora-Resendiz, JC Beckham… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2022 - Elsevier
The onset and persistence of life events (LE) such as housing instability, job instability, and
reduced social connection have been shown to increase risk of suicide. Predictive models …

[HTML][HTML] Complex modeling with detailed temporal predictors does not improve health records-based suicide risk prediction

SM Shortreed, RL Walker, E Johnson, R Wellman… - NPJ digital …, 2023 - nature.com
Suicide risk prediction models can identify individuals for targeted intervention. Discussions
of transparency, explainability, and transportability in machine learning presume complex …

[HTML][HTML] Improving ascertainment of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt with natural language processing

CA Bejan, M Ripperger, D Wilimitis, R Ahmed… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Methods relying on diagnostic codes to identify suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) at scale are suboptimal because suicide-related …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] High dimensional predictions of suicide risk in 4.2 million US Veterans using ensemble transfer learning

S Dhaubhadel, K Ganguly, RM Ribeiro, JD Cohn… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
We present an ensemble transfer learning method to predict suicide from Veterans Affairs
(VA) electronic medical records (EMR). A diverse set of base models was trained to predict a …

Validation of an electronic health record–based suicide risk prediction modeling approach across multiple health care systems

Y Barak-Corren, VM Castro, MK Nock… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Suicide is a leading cause of mortality, with suicide-related deaths increasing in
recent years. Automated methods for individualized risk prediction have great potential to …