Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex mental health condition triggered by exposure to traumatic events that leads to physical health problems and socioeconomic impairments. Although the complex symptomatology of PTSD makes diagnosis diff...
The opioid crisis has disproportionately affected U.S. veterans, leading the Veterans Health Administration to implement opioid prescribing guidelines. Veterans who receive care from both VA and non-VA providers-known as dual-system users-have an inc...
Previous models of depression outcomes have been limited by symptom heterogeneity within populations. This study conducted a retrospective analysis using latent growth mixture models to identify heterogeneous trajectories within a clinical population...
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death among American men. If detected and treated at an early stage, prostate cancer is often curable. However, an advanced stage such as metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRP...
Suicide is a leading cause of death. Suicide rates are particularly elevated among Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patients. While VA has made impactful suicide prevention advances, efforts primarily target high-risk patients with documented suic...
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 processing method that evaluates topic changes over time, to anal...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To develop the COVid Veteran (COVet) score for clinical deterioration in Veterans hospitalized with COVID-19 and further validate this model in both Veteran and non-Veteran samples. No such score has been derived and validat...
BACKGROUND: Complex grief patterns are associated with significant suffering, functional impairments, health and mental health problems, and increased healthcare use. This burden may be even more pronounced among veterans. Behavioral Activation and T...
International journal of public health
May 6, 2024
Suicide risk is elevated in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. Limited data on LGBT status in healthcare systems hinder our understanding of this risk. This study used natural language processing to extract LGBT status and a...
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