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

Journal: Psychological medicine
Published Date: Feb 17, 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This study evaluated whether natural language processing (NLP) of psychotherapy note text provides additional accuracy over and above currently used suicide prediction models.

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  • Maxwell Levis
    White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA.
  • Christine Leonard Westgate
    White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA.
  • Jiang Gui
    Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
  • Bradley V Watts
    Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
  • Brian Shiner
    White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA.

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