Discovering the Unclassified Suicide Cases Among Undetermined Drug Overdose Deaths Using Machine Learning Techniques.

CONCLUSIONS: This research identifies a cost-effective, replicable, and expandable ML-based methodology to estimate the true rates of suicide which may be partially masked during the opioid epidemic.
PMID: 31536175 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior - September 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Liu D, Yu M, Duncan J, Fondario A, Kharrazi H, Nestadt PS Tags: Suicide Life Threat Behav Source Type: research