Psychiatric Emergency Service Use Trends: Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Massachusetts from 2005-2020.

IF 1.2 4区医学 Q4 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1353/hpu.2025.a951595

Kaila A Rudolph, Corinne A Beaugard, Cindy Xu, Sarah Syed, Alison Duncan, Hannah E Brown, David C Henderson, Rachel Oblath

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Abstract

Adults experiencing homelessness (AEH) have high rates of psychiatric conditions, face barriers to accessing psychiatric care, and are high emergency department (ED) utilizers, a setting often unable to address their complex health needs. This study assesses time trends and high frequency utilization by AEH in one psychiatric emergency services (PES) program. A retrospective review of electronic health records from 2005 to 2020 was conducted at an urban PES program serving uninsured and publicly insured adults. Of the 227,553 PES encounters examined, 75,127 (33%) involved AEH. The percentage of PES encounters involving AEH almost doubled from 23.3% in 2005 to 41.6% in 2020. The proportion of AEH using PES aged 55 and older more than tripled, from 4.2% to 15.4%. Adults experiencing homelessness had over six times the odds of being high frequency PES utilizers (10+ visits/year) as housed adults. These findings support interventions addressing housing access within PES encounters.

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Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved Multiple-

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2.00

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7.10%

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154

期刊介绍： The journal has as its goal the dissemination of information on the health of, and health care for, low income and other medically underserved communities to health care practitioners, policy makers, and community leaders who are in a position to effect meaningful change. Issues dealt with include access to, quality of, and cost of health care.