Detecting Pediatric Emergency Service Use for Suicide and Self-Harm: Multimodal Analysis of 3828 Encounters
This cross-sectional retrospective study identified that, relative to diagnostic codes and chief concern alone, hybrid structured-text detection methods improved accuracy and mitigated unwanted detection variability. The findings offer a scaffold for future clinical deployment of improved information retrieval of pediatric suicide and self-harm-related emergencies.
Authors
- Joshua J. Lee
- Bonnie T. Zima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5542-1879)
- Alexandra M. Klomhaus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7676-3595)
- Elyse Tascione
- Juliet Beni Edgcomb (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5530-8262)
- Chrislie G. Ponce
- Angshuman Saha
- Theona Tacorda
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (US)
- Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Mental Health
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/82371
- Primary Topic
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00