Author:
Bejan Cosmin A.,Ripperger Michael,Wilimitis Drew,Ahmed Ryan,Kang JooEun,Robinson Katelyn,Morley Theodore J.,Ruderfer Douglas M.,Walsh Colin G.
Abstract
AbstractMethods relying on diagnostic codes to identify suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) at scale are suboptimal because suicide-related outcomes are heavily under-coded. We propose to improve the ascertainment of suicidal outcomes using natural language processing (NLP). We developed information retrieval methodologies to search over 200 million notes from the Vanderbilt EHR. Suicide query terms were extracted using word2vec. A weakly supervised approach was designed to label cases of suicidal outcomes. The NLP validation of the top 200 retrieved patients showed high performance for suicidal ideation (area under the receiver operator curve [AUROC]: 98.6, 95% confidence interval [CI] 97.1–99.5) and suicide attempt (AUROC: 97.3, 95% CI 95.2–98.7). Case extraction produced the best performance when combining NLP and diagnostic codes and when accounting for negated suicide expressions in notes. Overall, we demonstrated that scalable and accurate NLP methods can be developed to identify suicidal behavior in EHRs to enhance prevention efforts, predictive models, and precision medicine.
Funder
National Institute of Mental Health
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Cited by
2 articles.
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