Comparing emergency department reattendance and health and social-related vulnerability between people experiencing homelessness and people living in stable housing in Australia: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Few studies have quantified the vulnerability of people experiencing homelessness and its association with emergency department (ED) reattendances. The study objectives were to identify the health and social-related vulnerability, comorbidities and reattendance to an ED within 28 days, of people experiencing homelessness and people living in stable housing.

Design

Prospective cohort study, 28 September 2023 to 12 October 2023.

Setting

Metropolitan ED in an inner-city public hospital.

Participants

Eligible participants were those who attended the ED between 8am and 5pm during the 2 week study period (2023), those aged 18 years and over and able to provide informed consent, and those deemed well enough to participate.

Intervention

The homeless h

SUBMITTER: Currie J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12666112 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature