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Optimising Access to Healthcare for Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Emergency Departments
The ED is often the first and sometimes the only place where people experiencing homelessness seek medical assistance. While access to primary healthcare is a preferable and more cost-effective alternative to ED, for many reasons, people experiencing homelessness are much less likely to have a regul...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032424 |
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author | Currie, Jane Stafford, Amanda Hutton, Jennie Wood, Lisa |
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description | The ED is often the first and sometimes the only place where people experiencing homelessness seek medical assistance. While access to primary healthcare is a preferable and more cost-effective alternative to ED, for many reasons, people experiencing homelessness are much less likely to have a regular General Practitioner compared to those living in stable accommodation. Drawing on a growing body of emergency care and homelessness literature and practice, we have synthesised four potential interventions to optimise access to care when people experiencing homelessness present to an ED. Although EDs are in no way responsible for resolving the complex health and social issues of their local homeless population, they are a common contact point and therefore present an opportunity to improve access to healthcare. |
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spelling | pubmed-99161502023-02-11 Optimising Access to Healthcare for Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Emergency Departments Currie, Jane Stafford, Amanda Hutton, Jennie Wood, Lisa Int J Environ Res Public Health Editorial The ED is often the first and sometimes the only place where people experiencing homelessness seek medical assistance. While access to primary healthcare is a preferable and more cost-effective alternative to ED, for many reasons, people experiencing homelessness are much less likely to have a regular General Practitioner compared to those living in stable accommodation. Drawing on a growing body of emergency care and homelessness literature and practice, we have synthesised four potential interventions to optimise access to care when people experiencing homelessness present to an ED. Although EDs are in no way responsible for resolving the complex health and social issues of their local homeless population, they are a common contact point and therefore present an opportunity to improve access to healthcare. MDPI 2023-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9916150/ /pubmed/36767794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032424 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Editorial Currie, Jane Stafford, Amanda Hutton, Jennie Wood, Lisa Optimising Access to Healthcare for Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Emergency Departments |
title | Optimising Access to Healthcare for Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Emergency Departments |
title_full | Optimising Access to Healthcare for Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Emergency Departments |
title_fullStr | Optimising Access to Healthcare for Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Emergency Departments |
title_full_unstemmed | Optimising Access to Healthcare for Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Emergency Departments |
title_short | Optimising Access to Healthcare for Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Emergency Departments |
title_sort | optimising access to healthcare for patients experiencing homelessness in hospital emergency departments |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767794 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032424 |
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