ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2016
Hospital care and costs for homeless people.
Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Peer advocacy and access to hospital care for people who are homeless in London, UK, 2019-2023: a cohort study.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Estimating the scale of hospital admissions for people experiencing homelessness in England: a population-based multiple systems estimation study using national Hospital Episode Statistics.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Diabetes care for people experiencing homelessness in the UK: insights from a national survey of frontline professionals and the development of an integrated care model.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Disparities in healthcare costs of people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada in the post COVID-19 pandemic era: a matched cohort study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Homelessness and housing problems in admitted psychiatric patients in Flanders, Belgium.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Emergency department outcomes for patients experiencing homelessness in England: retrospective cross-sectional study.European journal of public health · 2023Article
- Identifying Predictors of Homelessness Among Adults in a Large Integrated Health System in Northern California.The Permanente journal · 2023Article
- A comprehensive review of prioritised interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of persons with lived experience of homelessness.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Review
- Health Care Utilization Among Homeless Veterans in Chicago.Military medicine · 2020Article
- Housing situation and healthcare for patients in a psychiatric centre in Berlin, Germany: a cross-sectional patient survey.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Challenges to discussing palliative care with people experiencing homelessness: a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2017Article
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Abstract
The national picture of the comparative costs and diagnoses of hospitalised homeless patients are examined using the 'no fixed abode' flag in English hospital statistics. Comparable studies sample patients in single cities, eg New York and Toronto. The most common diagnosis is substance misuse; the share of homeless NHS patients with this diagnosis is rising, and now equals that found in North American cities. About half of the cost of homeless patients relates to diagnoses of mental illness, although these comprise a much smaller share of homeless patients than in North America. Hospital costs for homeless patients - both total and per admission - have fallen significantly in recent years, primarily because of fewer admissions and shorter lengths of stay for mentally ill patients. Aims to reduce NHS costs at the level of individual institutions have often shaped policy. Broader policy to prevent and reduce homelessness offers substantial long-term reductions in the cost of chronic care.
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