Trends in hospital coding for people experiencing homelessness in Canada, 2015-2020: a descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2018, hospitals were mandated to record homelessness using International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Canada (ICD-10-CA code Z59.0). We sought to answer whether the coding mandate affected the volume of patients identified as experiencing homelessness in acute inpatient hospitalizations and if there was any geographic variation.

Methods

We conducted a serial cross-sectional study describing 6 fiscal years (2015/16 to 2020/21) of hospital administrative data from the Hospital Morbidity Database. We reported frequencies and percentages of hospitalizations with a Z59.0 diagnostic code and disaggregated by several types of Canadian geographies. Controlling for fiscal quarter (coded Q1 to Q4) and province

SUBMITTER: De Prophetis E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10743647 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature