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Early primary care physician contact and health service utilisation in a large sample of recently released ex-prisoners in Australia: prospective cohort study.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of supported accommodation on health and criminal justice outcomes of people released from prison: a systematic literature review.Harm reduction journal · 2023Pooled it
- Prisoners co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV: a systematic review.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2016Pooled it
- Low-intensity case management increases contact with primary care in recently released prisoners: a single-blinded, multisite, randomised controlled trial.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2016Trial
- A Proposal for a Best-evidence Model of Care and Program Logic for Supported Accommodation for People Released From Prison.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2026Article
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- Access to services for mental ill-health and substance use among people released from prison in Scotland (RELEASE): Retrospective observational cohort study protocol.International journal of population data science · 2025Article
- Determinants of access to primary healthcare for formerly incarcerated women transitioning into the community: a systematic review of the literature.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Data linkage studies of primary care utilisation after release from prison: a scoping review.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- The predictive validity of the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) for moderate- to high-risk cannabis, methamphetamine and opioid use after release from prison.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
- Prospective study of retention in opioid agonist treatment and contact with emergency healthcare following release from prisons in Victoria, Australia.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2023Observational
- Healthcare utilization and psychiatric morbidity in violent offenders: findings from a prospective cohort study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- Is use of opioid agonist treatment associated with broader primary healthcare use among men with recent injecting drug use histories following release from prison? A prospective cohort study.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- High rates of resumption of injecting drug use following release from prison among men who injected drugs before imprisonment.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- The health of detainees and the role of primary care: Position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care.Primary health care research & development · 2022Review
- Association between contact with mental health and substance use services and reincarceration after release from prison.PloS one · 2022Article
- Healthcare in a pure gatekeeping system: utilization of primary, mental and emergency care in the prison population over time.Health & justice · 2021Article
- Attachment to primary care and team-based primary care: Retrospective cohort study of people who experienced imprisonment in Ontario.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2019Article
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- Calculating incidence rates and prevalence proportions: not as simple as it seems.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Modifiable risk factors for external cause mortality after release from prison: a nested case-control study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe the association between ex-prisoner primary care physician contact within 1 month of prison release and health service utilisation in the 6 months following release.
designA cohort from the Passports study with a mean follow-up of 219 (± 44) days postrelease. Associations were assessed using a multivariate Andersen-Gill model, controlling for a range of other factors.
settingFace-to-face, baseline interviews were conducted in a sample of prisoners within 6 weeks of expected release from seven prisons in Queensland, Australia, from 2008 to 2010, with telephone follow-up interviews 1, 3 and 6 months postrelease.
participantsFrom an original population-based sample of 1325 sentenced adult (≥ 18 years) prisoners, 478 participants were excluded due to not being released from prison during follow-up (n=7, 0.5%), loss to follow-up (n=257, 19.4%), or lacking exposure data (n=214, 16.2%). A total of 847 (63.9%) participants were included in the analyses. EXPOSURE: Primary care physician contact within 1 month of follow-up as a dichotomous measure.
main outcome measuresAdjusted time-to-event hazard rates for hospital, mental health, alcohol and other drug and subsequent primary care physician service utilisations assessed as multiple failure time-interval data.
resultsPrimary care physician contact prevalence within 1 month of follow-up was 46.5%. One-month primary care physician contact was positively associated with hospital (adjusted HR (AHR)=2.07; 95% CI 1.39 to 3.09), mental health (AHR=1.65; 95% CI 1.24 to 2.19), alcohol and other drug (AHR=1.48; 95% CI 1.15 to 1.90) and subsequent primary care physician service utilisation (AHR=1.47; 95% CI 1.26 to 1.72) over 6 months of follow-up.
conclusionsEngagement with primary care physician services soon after prison release increases health service utilisation during the critical community transition period for ex-prisoners. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12608000232336).
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