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Table 2 Healthcare services received during the project period, stratified housing services received

From: Variability in comorbidites and health services use across homeless typologies: multicenter data linkage between healthcare and homeless systems

 

Stable Housing

No homeless services

 

Yes

Hybrid

No

 

ICD 10 code only

 

N = 3017

N = 809

N = 5444

P-valuea

N = 2177

P-valuea

 

n

%

n

%

n

%

 

n

%

 

Visit type

Ambulatory

2252

75

649

80

3616

66

< 0.001

1195

55

< 0.001

Emergency room

1165

39

388

48

3436

63

 

1599

73

 

Hospitalization

406

13

139

17

1004

18

 

1025

47

 

Fragmentation

 # of facilities visited

  1

2132

71

543

67

3546

65

< 0.001

1319

61

< 0.001

  2

718

24

189

23

1343

25

 

560

26

 

  3

141

5

59

7

396

7

 

224

10

 

   ≥ 4

26

1

18

2

157

3

 

74

3

 

 # of EDs visited

  0

1852

61

421

52

2008

37

< 0.001

578

27

< 0.001

  1

1007

33

302

37

2527

46

 

1082

50

 

  2

141

5

57

7

664

12

 

355

16

 

  3

10

0.3

25

3

171

3

 

121

6

 

   ≥ 4

7

0.2

4

0.5

74

1.4

 

41

2

 
  1. Abbreviations: ED Emergency Department
  2. a P-values calculated with stable housing as the referent group. The P-values were < 0.001 for both the hybrid and no stable housing groups. For statistical tests of care fragmentation, we used the Cochran-Armitage test for trend across ordered categories