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Homelessness Tied to Worse Cancer Outcomes Among Veterans
MedPage Today
December 21, 2023
In a cohort of over 100,000 patients who received care from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, those experiencing homelessness were more likely to be diagnosed with stage IV colore...
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Access, Outcomes, and Costs Associated with Surgery for Malignancy Among People Experiencing Homelessness
Annals of Surgical Oncology
December 10, 2023
Cancer is the leading cause of mortality for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). However, not much is known about cancer-related surgical outcomes among PEH. This retrospective cohort study aimed ...
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Association of Housing Status With Types of Operations and Postoperative Health Care Utilization
Annals of Surgery
December 1, 2023
Unhoused patients have worse outcomes and higher health care utilization compared to their housed counterparts. Previous research has primarily focused on physical and behavioral health. This retrospe...
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Injury Patterns and Hospital Admission After Trauma Among People Experiencing Homelessness
JAMA Network Open
June 23, 2023
 Traumatic injury is a major cause of morbidity for people experiencing homelessness (PEH), however, injury patterns and subsequent hospitalization among PEH have not been studied on a national scale....
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Hospital Variability in Adoption of Alcohol and Drug Screening in Adult Trauma Patients
The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
May 1, 2023
In this retrospective observational cross-sectional study of patients in the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP), researchers looked to determine if there was significant practice variability in...
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Cluster Analysis of the Highest Users of Medical, Behavioral Health, and Social Services in San Francisco
Journal of General Internal Medicine
April 1, 2023
This study from BHHI researchers describes five distinct subgroups of the highest users of the health care system in San Francisco with differential comorbidities, health care needs, and social determ...
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766 San Francisco Residents May Be Eligible for Referral to CARE Court
February 27, 2023
California passed the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act in 2022 to provide behavioral health and housing services to individuals with psychotic spectrum and schizophrenia diso...
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Analysis of Emergency Department Encounters Among High Users of Health Care and Social Service Systems Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMA Network Open
October 28, 2022
High users of the health care system use a disproportionate amount of health services yet have poorer health outcomes. This study aimed to examine natural trends in emergency department visits among h...
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Video: How Hospital Discharge Data Can Inform State Homelessness Policy
Public Policy Institute of California
October 7, 2022
California’s homeless population has increased in recent years, and so has public investment in addressing homelessness, making understanding the size and needs of the state’s homeless population more...
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Signals of Distress: High Utilization of Criminal Legal and Urgent and Emergent Health Services in San Francisco
September 27, 2022
People with multiple, complex health and housing needs frequently receive fragmented care because the providing systems operate independently. The California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley and the UCSF Ben...
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How Hospital Discharge Data Can Inform State Homelessness Policy
Public Policy Institute of California
September 19, 2022
Hospital emergency departments (ED) are on the frontlines of serving people experiencing homelessness, and this report investigated what ED data can reveal about homelessness in California. Hospitals ...
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Understanding the Association Between Frequent Emergency Department Use and Jail Incarceration: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Academic Emergency Medicine
May 1, 2022
The number of individuals incarcerated in the United States has increased since the 1970s. Frequent emergency department (ED) use and incarceration can both be driven by underlying structural factors ...
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Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness in San Francisco During the COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMA Network Open
March 10, 2022
This study from UCSF BHHI researchers examined deaths among people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. They found 82% of 331 deaths were associat...
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Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness in San Francisco 2016–2018
Journal of General Internal Medicine
March 1, 2022
This UCSF study examined deaths among people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco from 2016 to 2018. Although heart disease and cancer are the first and second causes of death for California’s g...
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Understanding the 100 Highest Users of Health and Social Services in San Francisco
Academic Emergency Medicine
September 1, 2021
The San Francisco Department of Public Health implemented the Coordinated Care Management System (CCMS) in 2007. The CCMS is used to develop High Users of Multiple Systems (HUMS) tp identify individua...
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Hotel-Based COVID-19 Isolation and Quarantine Strategy for Persons Experiencing Homelessness
JAMA Network Open
March 1, 2021
A new study from UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative and the San Francisco Department of Public Health describes how San Francisco rapidly scaled a hotel-based isolation and quarantine (I...