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Racial/ethnic disparities of suicide prediction models after mental health visits

2021-04-28
(Press-News.org) What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated racial/ethnic differences in the performance of statistical models that use health record data to predict the risk of suicide after an outpatient mental health visit.

Authors: R. Yates Coley, Ph.D., of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, is the corresponding author.

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(10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.0493)

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