ArticleHealth services research2022
Development of a homelessness risk screening tool for emergency department patients.
Article in Health services research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Review
- Homelessness prediction models in high-income countries: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Physician explanation of Z-coded homelessness in medicaid claims.Health services & outcomes research methodology · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Social Risk Factors and Emergency Department Use: National Health Interview Survey 2016-2018.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Eligibility of emergency department patients for public benefit programs.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2024Article
- Characteristics and Health Care Utilization of Patients With Housing Insecurity in the ED.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Prehospital Care for Persons Experiencing Homelessness: A Cross-Sectional Survey of the Challenges, Experiences, and Perspectives of Operational EMS Agency Medical Directors.Prehospital emergency care · 2024Article
- Characteristics of hospital and health system initiatives to address social determinants of health in the United States: a scoping review of the peer-reviewed literature.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- How legal problems are conceptualized and measured in healthcare settings: a systematic review.Health & justice · 2023Article
- Death by a Thousand Screens: A Practical Role for Machine Learning in Emergency Medicine.Annals of emergency medicine · 2023Article
- ED-Home: Pilot feasibility study of a targeted homelessness prevention intervention for emergency department patients with drug or unhealthy alcohol use.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2022Article
- Performance of 2 Single-Item Screening Questions to Identify Future Homelessness Among Emergency Department Patients.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Development of a homelessness risk screening tool for emergency department patients.Health services research · 2022Article
- Allocating Homeless Services After the Withdrawal of the Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool.American journal of public health · 2022Article
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10 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo develop a screening tool to identify emergency department (ED) patients at risk of entering a homeless shelter, which could inform targeting of interventions to prevent future homelessness episodes. DATA SOURCES: Linked data from (1) ED patient baseline questionnaires and (2) citywide administrative homeless shelter database. STUDY
designStakeholder-informed predictive modeling utilizing ED patient questionnaires linked with prospective shelter administrative data. The outcome was shelter entry documented in administrative data within 6 months following the baseline ED visit. Exposures were responses to questions on homelessness risk factors from baseline questionnaires. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION
methodsResearch assistants completed questionnaires with randomly sampled ED patients who were medically stable, not in police/prison custody, and spoke English or Spanish. Questionnaires were linked to administrative data using deterministic and probabilistic matching. PRINCIPAL
findingsOf 1993 ED patients who were not homeless at baseline, 5.6% entered a shelter in the next 6 months. A screening tool consisting of two measures of past shelter use and one of past criminal justice involvement had 83.0% sensitivity and 20.4% positive predictive value for future shelter entry.
conclusionsOur study demonstrates the potential of using cross-sector data to improve hospital initiatives to address patients' social needs.
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