Identifying a clinical signature of suicidality among patients with mood disorders: A pilot study using a machine learning approach

OBJECTIVE: A growing body of evidence has put forward clinical risk factors associated with patients with mood disorders that attempt suicide. However, what is not known is how to integrate clinical variables into a clinically useful tool in order to estimate the probability of an individual patient attempting suicide. METHOD: A total of 144 patients with mood disorders were included. Clinical variables associated with suicide attempts among …