GRiST at St Hugh's College, Oxford University, for an International Health Conference

This Oxford-based conference brings together researchers who aim to promote health and wellbeing through improved health services in Europe and around the world.

The GRiST presentation had the title

"Harnessing the power of mental-health risk assessment expertise to create a seamless, evolving partnership between research and the delivery of advice at the point of care".

Abstract

"Predicting precisely when people will try to kill themselves is not possible. This can be used as a reason for eschewing risk assessments despite their clinical importance: managing risk requires knowledge of what raises it. GRiST is a decision support system that overcomes resistance by modelling clinicians' natural thinking and reasoning about risk and evolving it alongside clinical requirements. In particular, the GRiST database of accumulating risk judgements fuels machine learning research that captures expert consensus and helps reduce assessment errors. This is a perfect example of clinical input directly influencing research, which then feeds straight back into practice."