Can routine Primary Care Records Help in Detecting Suicide Risk? A Population-Based Case-Control Study in Barcelona.
Marc Fradera-JiménezDan OuchiOriol PratRosa MorrosCarles Martin-FumadóDiego Palao VidalNarcís CardonerMaria Teresa CampilloVíctor Pérez-SolàCaridad PontesPublished in: Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research (2021)
Nearly half of suicide subjects contacted primary healthcare before dying but remained either undetected or not effectively managed for prevention. In cases who interacted, available data on risk factors included high frequentation and being on sick leave due to mental health disorders, in addition to other well-known factors. Routine electronic medical records represent an opportunity to provide clinical-decision support tools that could be implemented through automatized risk calculation.HIGHLIGHTSMost of suicide patients had a recent interaction with the healthcare systemWell known risk factors were available in the routine electronic medical recordsAdditional alerting tools could be implemented through automatized risk calculation.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- risk factors
- primary care
- mental health
- clinical decision support
- clinical practice
- electronic health record
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- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- machine learning
- chronic kidney disease
- palliative care
- prognostic factors
- deep learning
- artificial intelligence
- social media
- mental illness