Machine-Learning Algorithms Can Predict Suicide Risk More Readily Than Clinicians, Study Finds

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Machine-Learning Algorithms Can Predict Suicide Risk More Readily Than Clinicians, Study Finds

February 28, 2017 MedHacker Leave a comment Go to comments

Each year in the United States, more than 40,000 people die by suicide, and from 1999 to 2014, the suicide rate increased 24 percent. You might think that after generations of theories and data, we would be close to understanding how to prevent self-harm, or at least predict it.

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