Emergency department outcomes for patients experiencing homelessness in England: retrospective cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency departments (EDs) are an important point of access to health care for people experiencing homelessness. Evidence suggests that ED attendances by homeless people are more likely to result in leaving the ED without treatment, or dying in the ED. We investigate which diagnoses and patterns of health care use are associated with these (and other) discharge destinations and re-attendance within 7 days among homeless patients.

Methods

We used national hospital data to analyze attendances of all 109 254 people experiencing homelessness who presented at any Type 1 ED in England over 2013-18. We used logistic regression to estimate the association of each outcome with primary diagnosis and patterns of healthcare use.

Results

Compared with patients with no

SUBMITTER: Moss C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10066478 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature