• Author: Vincent Dufort
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Rural–urban disparities in access to interventional psychiatry treatments among U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs patients

Abstract: While tele-mental health has improved access to standard medication management and psychotherapy for rural veterans, implementation of interventional psychiatry …

Comparing suicide rates for cognitive processing therapy versus prolonged exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to compare suicide mortality rates for patients receiving two evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) protocols for posttraumatic stress disorder …

Characterizing Veteran suicide decedents that were not classified as high-suicide-risk

Abstract: Background: Although the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made important suicide prevention advances, efforts primarily target high-risk patients with documented …

Using natural language processing to evaluate temporal patterns in suicide risk variation among high-risk Veterans

Abstract: Measuring suicide risk fluctuation remains difficult, especially for high-suicide risk patients. Our study addressed this issue by leveraging Dynamic Topic Modeling, a …

Association between post-traumatic stress disorder severity and death by suicide in US military veterans: retrospective cohort study

Abstract: Background: There is mixed evidence regarding the direction of a potential association between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide mortality. This is the …