Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes

S Feuerriegel, D Frauen, V Melnychuk, J Schweisthal… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Causal machine learning (ML) offers flexible, data-driven methods for predicting treatment
outcomes including efficacy and toxicity, thereby supporting the assessment and safety of …

Estimating treatment effect heterogeneity in Psychiatry: A review and tutorial with causal forests

E Sverdrup, M Petukhova, S Wager - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.01578, 2024 - arxiv.org
Flexible machine learning tools are being used increasingly to estimate heterogeneous
treatment effects. This paper gives an accessible tutorial demonstrating the use of the causal …

Initial evaluation of a personalized advantage index to determine which individuals may benefit from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for suicide prevention

CE Myers, CV Dave, MS Chesin, BP Marx… - … Research and Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Develop and evaluate a treatment matching algorithm to predict differential
treatment response to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for suicide prevention (MBCT …

Minimax-Regret Sample Selection in Randomized Experiments

Y Hu, H Zhu, E Brunskill, S Wager - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01386, 2024 - arxiv.org
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often run in settings with many subpopulations that
may have differential benefits from the treatment being evaluated. We consider the problem …

[HTML][HTML] The use of CAMS and DBT to effectively treat patients who are suicidal

DA Jobes, SL Rizvi - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Around the world, suicide ideation, attempts, and deaths pose a major public and mental
health challenge for patients (and their loved ones). Accordingly, there is a clear need for …

Suicide Risk—A Specific Intervention Target

KL Green, S Jager-Hyman, MA Oquendo - JAMA psychiatry, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Suicide is a pressing public health concern in the US and the last decades have seen rising
suicide rates, but also increased research focused on the development and evaluation of …

Potential Harms of Responding to Youth Suicide Risk in Schools

EJ Reinbergs, LH Smith, JS Au, ME Marraccini… - Research on Child and …, 2024 - Springer
The potential harms related to interventions for adults with suicide-related risk, particularly
hospitalization, have been well documented. Much less work has focused on the potential …

[PDF][PDF] Causal Inference: A Statistical Learning Approach

S Wager - 2024 - stanford.edu
How best to understand and characterize causality is an age-old question in philosophy. As
such, one might expect that any discussion of causal inference would need to be framed in …

The Effect of Education in Prompt Engineering: Evidence from Journalists

A Bashardoust, Y Feng, D Geissler… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in daily work. In this paper, we
analyze whether training in prompt engineering can improve the interactions of users with …

Formulation to Support Individuals Who Are Experiencing Emotional Distress and Associated Self-Harm

L Alfred, B Williamson, C Mudimu - Formulation in Mental Health Nursing, 2024 - Springer
The following chapter begins with Betty's story—an anonymised account provided with
Betty's consent. The chapter explores what a compassionate approach to listening, hearing …