Background Persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) often use hospital Emergency
Department (ED) as the only source of healthcare. The aim of this study was to undertake a …

Objectives We aimed to synthesize the available evidence on the demographics,
prevalence, clinical characteristics, and evidence‐based management of homeless persons …

As the US health care system moves to expand access to and quality of medical care, the
importance of addressing patient-level social needs and community-level social …

Despite reports that over 1.3 million school-age children (ages 5–18) were homeless in
2019, little is known about the effects of homelessness on their overall health and well …

Using a multi-institutional EMR registry, we extracted housing status and evaluated the
presence of several important comorbidities in order to describe the demographics and …

Objective To evaluate whether a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm could be
adapted to extract, with acceptable validity, markers of residential instability (ie …

Background As the US homeless population grows, so has the challenge of providing
effective care to homeless individuals. Understanding hospitals that achieve better …

Background A 2005 study examined emergency department (ED) utilization by homeless
patients in the United States. Within the following 5 years, unemployment increased by 5 …

Frostbite is a high morbidity, high-cost injury that can lead to digit or limb necrosis requiring
amputation. Our primary aim is to describe the rate of readmission following frostbite injury …

Background Internationally, acute homelessness is commonly associated with complex
health and social care needs. While homelessness can be understood as an outcome of …