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

André Bittar Sumithra Velupillai Angus Roberts Rina Dutta

Published in: JMIR medical informatics (2021)

Our findings indicate that these 6 sentiment lexicons are not optimal for use in suicide risk assessment. We propose a set of guidelines for the creation of more suitable lexical resources for distinguishing suicide-related from non-suicide-related EHR texts.

Keyphrases

electronic health record
risk assessment
human health
heavy metals
clinical decision support
adverse drug