Machine Learning for Violence Risk Assessment Using Dutch Clinical Notes ...

Violence risk assessment in psychiatric institutions enables interventions to avoid violence incidents. Clinical notes written by practitioners and available in electronic health records are valuable resources capturing unique information, but are seldom used to their full potential. We explore conventional and deep machine learning methods to assess violence risk in psychiatric patients using practitioner notes. The performance of our best models is comparable to the currently used questionnaire-based method, with an area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve of approximately 0.8.... Mehr ...