Using General-purpose Sentiment Lexicons for Suicide Risk Assessment in Electronic Health Records: Corpus-Based Analysis

BackgroundSuicide is a serious public health issue, accounting for 1.4% of all deaths worldwide. Current risk assessment tools are reported as performing little better than chance in predicting suicide. New methods for studying dynamic features in electronic health records (E...

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Main Authors: Bittar, André, Velupillai, Sumithra, Roberts, Angus, Dutta, Rina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2021-04-01
Series:JMIR Medical Informatics
Online Access:https://medinform.jmir.org/2021/4/e22397