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Predicting the Risk of Suicide By Analyzing the Text of Clinical Notes

Posted by samzenpus on from the seeing-the-signs dept.

First time accepted submitter J05H writes "Soldier and veteran suicide rates are increasing due to various factors. Critically, the rates have jumped in recent years. Now, Bayesian search experts are using anonymous Veteran's Administration notes to predict suicide risks. A related effort by Chris Poulin is the Durkheim Project which uses opt-in social media data for similar purposes."

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  1. Re: Fucking Retarded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sure this is will come to pass, especially when the next school shooting [1] happens... FB and other sites will be required to run a real time filter that notifies local police 24/7 if some emo kid writes a post that passes a threshold, they get picked up by the white coats and force fed Prozac until their synapses collapse.

    [1]: Ironic that Venezuela had their violent crime rate drop by a factor of a thousand by removing guns from the citizenry. Wonder how many dead children it will take for that to happen in the US.