Associations Between Different Types of Housing Insecurity and Future Emergency Department Use Among a Cohort of Emergency Department Patients

In this study, we examined the association between different types of housing insecurity, including detailed measures of homelessness, and future ED use among a cohort of patients initially seen in an urban safety-net hospital ED in the United States between November 2016 and January 2018. We found that homelessness was associated with a higher mean number of ED visits in the year post-baseline. Other measures of housing insecurity (unaffordability, crowding, forced moves, and multiple moves) were not associated with greater ED use in the year post-baseline in multivariable models. We also found that only specific types of homelessness, primarily unsheltered homelessness, were associated with increased ED use.PMID:38015129

Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - November 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Giselle Routhier Tod Mijanovich Maryanne Schretzman Jessica Sell Lillian Gelberg Kelly M Doran Source Type: research