Homelessness and use of emergency departments Journal of Paramedic PracticeWilliams, Julia
(2007). Homelessness, health status and emergency department use: An integrated review of the literature. Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal, 10(4), 178-185.Moore G, Gerdtz M and Manias E (2007) Homelessness, health status and emergency department use: An integrated review of the ...
Unstable housing and homelessness can exacerbateadverse health outcomes, leading to increased risk of chronic disease, injury, and disability, the authors said, but emergency departments currently do not have a universal method to identify those at risk of, or currently experiencing, homelessness. "N...
Homeless adults frequently use emergency departments (EDs), yet previous studies investigating ED utilization by the older segment received little attention. This study sought to characterize older homeless adults who utilized local urban EDs. ED encounters at three hospitals in Hamilton (Ont.) were an...
A number of screening tools use self-reported information collected in clinical settings to identify homelessness or other forms of housing insecurity.4-8 Such tools may be particularly valuable for use in emergency departments (EDs) given evidence of increased rates of housing insecurity among ED ...
Health and Human Longevity Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Emergency Medicine, provide the first epidemiological evidence of thehealthimpacts ofheatwaves on people experiencing homelessness, visits to emergency departments and which characteristics make them particularly at-...
Lastly, while COVID-19 is a significant enough event to drive changes in mental health and ED utilization, we cannot rule out other reasons for the marked increase. 4.2. Conclusions Emergency departments have become de facto sites for the identification and triage of mental health emergencies. ...
Difficult Behaviors in the Emergency Department: A Cohort Study of Housed, Homeless and Alcohol Dependent Individuals This study contrasted annual rates of difficult behaviours in emergency departments among cohorts of individuals who were homeless and low-income housed an... T Svoboda - 《Plos One》...
The sum of data from the primary study sites and the other study hospitals produced the total number of hospitalizations, hospital days, and number of emergency department visits at all hospitals. All clinicians caring for the study participants on the wards and in the emergency departments and cl...
As part of a larger study focused on interventions to enhance the capacity of nurses and other health care workers to provide equity-oriented care in emergency departments (EDs), we conducted an analysis of news media related to three EDs. The purpose of