ArticleThe journal of behavioral health services & research2020
Frequent Attendance to the Emergency Department after Release from Prison: a Prospective Data Linkage Study.
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- 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
- Adverse health outcomes in violent crime convicted persons: risk factors for somatic inpatient healthcare utilization.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Emergency Medical Services Calls for Service at Adult Detention Centers: A Descriptive Study.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
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- Physical multimorbidity, concurrent psychiatric morbidity, and emergency department presentation among adults released from prison: a prospective cohort study from Queensland, Australia.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Health and incarceration research in Australia: a scoping review.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Review
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- 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
- Women sleeping rough: The health, social and economic costs of homelessness.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Understanding the association between frequent emergency department use and jail incarceration: A cross-sectional analysis.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2022Article
- Continuity of mental health care during the transition from prison to the community following brief periods of imprisonment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
The aim of this paper was to identify characteristics and predictors of frequent emergency department (ED) use among people released from prisons in Queensland, Australia. Baseline interview data from a sample of sentenced adults were linked to ED and hospital records. The association between baseline characteristics and frequent ED attendance was modelled by fitting multivariate logistic regression models. Participants who had ≥ 4 visits to the ED in any 365-day period of community follow-up were defined as frequent attenders (FA). The analyses included 1307 people and mean follow-up time in the community was 1063 days. After adjusting for covariates, those with a dual diagnoses of mental illness and substance use (RR = 2.42, 95% CI 1.47-3.99) and those with mental illness alone (RR = 2.47, 95% CI 1.29-4.73) were at higher risk of frequent ED attendance, compared with those with no disorder. Future research should assess whether individually tailored transition supports from prison to community reduce the frequency of ED use among this population.
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