Model performs well in predicting suicide attempts across races, ethnicities

A model developed to predict suicide attempts performed well across races and ethnicities, according to a research letter published in JAMA Psychiatry.
“Innovative prevention strategies are needed to reduce U.S. suicide rates, which have been steadily increasing with a recent disproportionate increase among Black and Hispanic populations,” Santiago Papini, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, and colleagues wrote. “Predictive models of suicide risk have been developed using machine learning with electronic