Romain Bey, Ariel Cohen, Vincent Trebossen, Basile Dura, Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy, Charline Jean, Benjamin Landman, Thomas Petit-Jean, Gilles Chatellier, Kankoe Sallah, Xavier Tannier, Aurelie Bourmaud, Richard Delorme
There is an urgent need to monitor the mental health of large populations, especially during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, to timely identify the most at-risk subgroups and to design targeted prevention campaigns. We therefore developed and validated surveillance indicators related to suicidality: the monthly number of hospitalisations caused by suicide attempts and the prevalence among them of five known risks factors. They were automatically computed analysing the electronic health records of fifteen university hospitals of the Paris area, France, using natural language processing algorithms based on artificial intelligence...
February 14, 2024: Npj Ment Health Res