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SDOH Associated with Increased Risk of Suicide Among US Veterans

March 28, 2023 - In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that nine social determinants of health (SDOH) extracted from structured and unstructured EHR data using natural language processing (NLP) were associated with an increased risk of suicide-related death among US veterans. The impact of social factors on health has been the subject...


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